Show radio beacon to aid ships at sea device will obviate danger hovering over ocean going vessels collisions between ships passing in a storm or fog will be avoided in tile the future by tile the use of a new radio invention this annun announcement cc nent was as birde by federal Il brundes inc following tests aloha the lie pa in coast by the united states lighthouse service the standard oil company and tile the Fe federal dertil telegraph corn com puny party of california and lins has created a stir in shiv shipping Ding circles the new device which has proved that it will remove the danger hovering over oer vessels at times of low visibility causing loss of life and valuable shipping has been named the kolster mobile radio beacon in honor of its inventor ln enter dr F A kol ster eter who also invented the radio compass it Is as a low power automatic ralio radio transmitter which out n 1 characteristic sigeal over a short distance installed in pilot house installed in the pilot house independent of the strips ships radio telegraph it la Is turned on in thick v weather eather the radio signal it transmits Is heard by any ship within i a short distance which holcli by hie use of the radio compass or direction finder determines debei mines the position of the appi inching vessel the official tests testa were mittle made by captain rhoades Kh Rh oades olides superintendent of bf light houses on hoard board the lighthouse feltder sequoia by dr kolsted Kol who was wag formerly chief of the radio divi division sinn of the bureau of standards and by the standard oil oa tanker J C mons between san francisco ba bay yand and san pedro harbor arbor li reception of the dinst automatic signal was df de dared as satisfactory for tracing a 0 ships hips course as seeing the crafts craft lights on a clear night tit the e obile beacon to 13 about its as large as a radio a receiving set placed on a thing ihling room table nod and will he be inex pensive it coin be placed anywhere am where in a pilot house and does not require an experienced operator it Is a well known fact that thai dnn dan ger Is ever present I 1 in n fogge weather of ships coming coining together said C E C bennett chairman of bf the bechn technical leal committee of the lie american steamship owners association in commenting on the indention inventor Is distinguished the rhe present method of one ship locating another by attempting to rote pote the sound of the siren whistle and hell bell Is at best primitive any device that will permit one vessel to locate accurately another vessel in foggy weather as the bolst r nio mobile lille radio wacon beacon gives promise of doing will be welcomed by all who are engaged in ili the lie business doctor kolster the inventor has become distinguished in the development of radio during the twit lait 25 years lie he invented the radio com compass pasq the decre meter for measuring wave lengths and the radio tog fog signal the small ro tating fating loop now used on broadcast receivers originated in his radio corn pass p is as a direction finder in 1912 while in charge of radio in flip ohp bureau of standards lie was appointed tech adviser to tit alie Arn american arverlean erlean delaga tion at the lie international ilailo con entson in ili london at present he Is in charge of the flip research laboratories of the federal telegraph company at palo alto calif |