Show B BRITISH I 1 S H SCIENTIST SEES RADIO CONTROL OF WORLD tells of directing transportation by use of wireless london under the heading coming of the wireless age a british scientist contributes a striking article to a london newspaper in which ile he predicts that v tr eless will be used in the near future for directing ships at sea train and trolley services traffie control on the road fleets of battleships and aircraft it will aill be possible he be says to direct the path of everything moving on the surface of the earth not even excepting human beings by means of wireless the initial step in harnessing this potent and little known force was the t he establishment some weeks ago of a wireless lighthouse on Inch helth island in the r firth I 1 irth of forth by means of this lighthouse ships can be directed through the dangerous channels of the firth by wireless so there Is no possibility of their running ashore or being wrecked even on the darkest night or in the densest fogs steps are being taken in conjunction with the british board of trade and the meteorological office to internationalize wireless direction of kalips at sea at the present moment there Is lying in the port of london a ship that flint has been specially fitted with powerful wireless receiving sets to give demonstrations of this new method of navigation in oil all the principal ports of the world setting out from london this missionary fillip will sail for china via the mediterranean indian ocean and the straits and thence on to north and south america and back across the atlantic to europe and south africa giving demonstrations at every big port on en route the most ambitious effort h however 0 v e will be a cross atlantic airplane w fall which Is to be made late I 1 in the eam it mer the machine will carry both pilot and observer but their attentions will be confined to the actual flying side setting out from newfoundland for the first COO miles of its flight the airplane will be directed by the glace bay wireless station then it will be picked up and navigated by a wireless cruising in mid ocean to a point where control will be transmitted to ongar the big operating station in this country the whole 2000 miles of flight will be directed by wireless |