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WIRELESS BEAMS TO SOUTH AFRICA: The New Station at Bodmin--New Views at Hillmorton and at Witzleben

... WIRELESS BEAMS TO SOUTH AFRICA. The New Statiofi at Bodmin --New Views at Hillmorton and at Witzleben THE WIRELESS BEAM STATION AT BODMIN FOR DIRECT HIGH-SPEED WIRELESS TO CANADA AND SOUTH AFRICA WHAT THE GREAT HILLMORTON WIRELESS STATION LOOKS LIKE FROM THE TOP OF ONE OF THE MASTS A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF ONE OF THE MASTS AT HILLMORTON SHOWING THE INSULATORS AND CAGE AERIALS. AND TWO OTHER ...

ALL EYES on the SHANNON: The Transatlantic Flying Boat Air Base

... ALL EYES on the SHANNON The Transatlantic Flying B oat Air Base EUROPEAN TERMINUS OF THE INTER CONTINENTAL SKYWAY EUROPEAN.TERNU f the River Shannon near Foynes and Rynanna. the harbour which is to I be us, ed by the long range Empire flying boats when, in the near future, they inaugurate the new service between Western Ireland and Newfoundland. The Cambria has been visiting the spot to carry ...

The New Portable Wireless Stations for Cavalry Use

... . The Westmorland and Cumber land Yeomanry have recently been provided by Marconi's Wire less Telegraph Company, Ltd., with two portable wireless telegraph sets designed to be carried on four pack saddles and to maintain communication over a distance of thirty to forty miles. As it is primarily intended for cavalry i reconnaissances, the time taken to get into action has been reduced to a ...

TELEPHONING to AUSTRALIA by SHORT-WAVE WIRELESS: How Adequately Designed Reflectors Increase the Effective ..

... TELEPHONING to AUSTRALIA by SHORT-WAVE WIRELESS. How Adequately Designed Reflectors Increase the Effective Strength of Wireless Signals THE APERTURE REFLECTOR, WHICH URGES THE WIRELESS WAVES IN THE DESIRED DIRECTION AND MAKES LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONING PRACTICABLE DRAWN BY D. MACPHERSON Cohyrtehtpd. ■in. Hip T FZ il In the account which Senatore Marconi recently gave to the Society of Arts of ...

Front Matter

... -J THE SPHERE AN ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME mthBWLACK whitT D Volume LXXX. No. 1,046. s newspaper London, February 7, 1920. Price One Shilling. ...

WIRELESS across the ATLANTIC: The First Famous Experiment in 1901

... WIRELESS across the ATLANTIC The First Famous Experiment in 1901 k THE TRANSMITTING END OF THE GREAT EXPERIMENT: Fop the purposes of the great transatlantic experiment an aerial consisting of two slender poles supporting a number of converging wires was erected at Poldhu, Cornwall. The above view shows the general arrangement of the transmitting station. Below Marchese Marconi is seen with his ...

POINTED PARS

... He laughs best whose laugh lasts, is the better version of an old maxim. Jowett said to a famous musician— I don't like music, but I'm glad I've heard you play. Debtor — I want to pay that little bill yours. Creditor— Very well, sir. Debtor Overheard the Club Lounge—l'm unhappy woman with a secret that nobody want* to know. A Women's Enfranchisement Bill introduced into the South ...

WIRELESS AND WIRELESS EQUIPMENT: A New Series for Sphere Readers

... WIRELESS AND WIRELESS EQUIPMENT. A New Series for Sphere Readers, by R. H. WHITE, M.l.E.E. I. Outdoor Aerials No matter what type of wireless broadcast receiver may be installed, or how efficient it may be, a really good aerial and a good earth connection are still two of the most important parts of the whole wireless-receiving apparatus. While it is possible, with modern super-sensitive ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 909 | Page: Page 68 | Tags: Photographs  wireless 

REVOLUTIONIZING the DESERT King Ibn Saud and His Desert Wireless

... By KENNETH WILLIAMS The people of the Arabian deserts for centuries have lived as they were living at the time of the Prophet Muhammad. Naturally, therefore, they are opposed to all forms of progress. For them, the camel has been the only means of transport, the raid, the chief means of subsistence. In few countries can the basic habits of the common folk have changed so little with the ...

The Wireless Telephone and its Construction

... . For the details of our drawing and the following notes we are indebted to the courtesy of the Marconi Company. In the action of speaking or singing we transmit into the air sound waves. These waves vibrate upon the drum of the ear, and the vibration is carried to the brain as sound. This is the wireless of nature. The wireless telephone of science harnesses electricity to assist nature, as ...