Roosevelt Standard | 1936-04-23 | Page 12 | Radio is Now Applied in Hunt for Gold

radio Is now applied in hunt for gold laboratories are set up in in california town palo alto calif laboratories have been established here to develop geophysical instruments for detection of metal metallic ilc ores beneath the earths surface by means of radio principles while the first experiment with the instruments developed to date are being made in locating gold deposits it Is expected that eventually all y the same principles can be applied in the search for copper brou frou rou and other mineral deposits angels camp one of the early centers of california Is being tested with the radio gold finding instruments st and in lie end it Is expected that all of the old gold regions in california will be rechecked by this latest development for any pockets or veins of gold that the boers and successors overlooked doctor gerhard fisher in charge of the laboratories here Is one of the worlds leading authorities and inn inventors endors in the application of radio after completing his university training doctor fisher was called to sweden as aa assistant engineer in one 0 of the largest plants of the country ue ile erected Sw edens first private telephone station in 1923 1023 he was called back to the united states by princeton city and later began engineering w work ork with the de forrest company in new jersey in 1925 he was made chief engineer of 0 the press radio corporation of new york tori from there he was brought to palo alto by dr frederick kolster the radio inventor the two collaborated in the development of the kolster radio compass and similar instruments of radio application doctor fisher himself Is the inventor of tile the automatic aircraft direction finder