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Show II IaROUND WORLD IN FLASH I IS DONE BY WIRELESS I, T Around the world in a fraction of a second! That's the amaidn?: possibilities offered of-fered by radio the flashinK of a message mes-sage to the farthest end of the Rlobc-alruost Rlobc-alruost Instantaneously. Radio waves travel s fasl a- tight wave?, soy scientist'- That's lSG.OOo miles a 9econd. Which moans that a radio mcsbufio sent from a point in l.he United States would encrcli the Blobe nearly seven and one-half times in one second. That is impossible by t elerrra ph because be-cause there is no direct Una around the earth. It takes hours to reach a point where several cables are used in transmission. It takes only about one-fifteenth of a second for a message to be flashed from the powerful government station at the Presidio in San Francisco to the opposite side of the globe. This radio ra-dio station has the equipment to do It, too. There ar only a few others like j it In the world. France is building a radio station that it' Is believed will be able to encircle en-circle the earth with its messages Another An-other similar station is In the process of building on I-onp Island. New York. Not satisfied with the earth, scientists scien-tists ar said to he experimenting on apparatus that they hope may Hash signals to the moon and Mars. |