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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1919)
WAR mVENTIOttS COMING TO LIGHT New fork. As the seal placed upon the activities of America! Inventors by (he war Is broken, news of many In teresting achievements unknown to the public during the conflict are being brought to light. A system of sending and receiving wireless telephone msl sages at the same time, as Is done in wire lines; a "barrage receiver," which shuts out the sound of all wireless vi bration except those which the opera tor wishes to hear, and a system of rapid and accurate photography of wireless message became known to the public for the first time recently, al though government naval stations have been experimenting with them for some time. Engineers of the General Electric company at Schenectady are responsi ble for each of the Inventions. Ernst F. W. Alexanderson, consulting en gineer of the company, told of the de velopment of the barrage receiver and wireless telephony Ideas at a meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers at 29 West Thirty-ninth street recently. C. A. Hoxle of Schenectady, another General Electric company engineer, Is the Inventor of the wireless photo graphic apparatus. Sending and Receiving, Doctor Alexanderson told the engi neers that obviously some system of simultaneous sending and receiving would have to be Invented before wire less telephony would ever become com mercially practicable. Switching from one apparatus to another to send and receive would be annoying and delay ing. For Instance, the user of the tele phone on this side of the Atlantic says : "Hello" Into the mouthpiece. Then he lias to switch to another apparatus to catch the answer from Europe. And perhaps his friend overseas Is doing the same thing, and the attempt at conversation develops Into a sort of hide-and-seek game. There was also the problem of bringing the wireless telephone to the home of the user. If one has to travel to Washington or New Brunswick to use the wireless tel ephone It Is scarcely a saver of time or money. Doctor Alexanderson has devised a system of separate sending and re ceiving antennae, the sending and re ceiving stations Interconnected by a wire line and further connected to the exchange of the local telephone sys tem, so that all Mrs. Jones has to do when she wnnts to find out what Mr. Jones Is doing In Paris tonight is to K" to her ieitvpiiutie untl n6S, utti lol toll operator, but for the wireless op erator, he will connect her with Mr. Jones. The Barrage Receiver. The Invention of the barrage re ceiver came about as n result of the confusion Into which the wireless ma chinery was thrown during the war. Through her powerful stations at Nan sen and elsewhere Germany was mali ciously flooding the atmosphere with wireless "noise" so that communica tions between France and England nnd America became very difficult. Germany was completely drowning out the voice of America's nllles. The In terallied conference in February. 1018, sought a way out of the difficulty, and appeals for a solution were brought to Doctor Alexanderson by Lieutenant Pnternot of the French mission In this country. The solution, which wns adopted by the French nnd American governments after Its first demonstra tion wns called the "bnrrage receiver," because the word "barrage" has the original meaning of stoppage preven tion. The bnrrage receiver succcss fulyl shut out the vibrations sent out from Germany with the object of de stroying the allied Intercommunica tion. Its principle can be compared to that of an Instrument which. If ap plied to the ear, would silence the shrieking of a steam whistle .ten yards away, while enabling the listener to hear perfectly the spoken word a hun dred yards off. Aside from Its war time use the barrage receiver has ex tensive possibilities for peacetime de velopment. Through its use the num ber of communications that may be carried on without disturbing ench other may be multiplied greatly. HUN HIDESJ YE, hS Conceals Self in New Guinea Juri gie During War. i jL.muuuuuii.iuuuuuuuuur . .i.j ,.J 'TWAS A COURTSHIP BY WISE Delaware Operators Even Made Ar rangements for the Wedding by Telegraph. Ellendale, Del Love over the wire resulted In the marriage of Miss Dunn Vensey, telegraph operator nt Ellen dnle, and Edward Itust, operator at Redden. The two were but seven miles apart in the wire, ond each, seeking a great er proficiency, practiced sending mes sages to the other In leisure moments. During all their courtship the two sent their messnges hack and forth over the wire, and finally when they decided to slip away to Wilming ton to be married the arrangements were made by wire. Marconi says people can talk across the Atlantic, but the censor has the last word. Konrad Detzler, a German army en- I giueer who had been hiding In the New Guinea jungle since the beginning of the war, has come back to civilization and uow Is In an Internment camp la Australia. Dealer's story is on a par with other romantic Incidents of the war as it affected the South sea. Detzler holds a captain's commission. When the war began he was surveying the boundary line between the then i Kaiser Wllhelmland, or German New ; Guluea, and Papua, or British New Guinea. Be decamped Into the bush. This was a risky act, for the bushmen prefer human flesh above ail other kinds. When an Australian force oc cupied Kaiser Wilhelmlund Detzler wns overlooked. For more than four years Detzler lived In the bush near Mtsmls. He had a shotgun, but It was not long e fore he ran out of cartridges. There after he lived on yams, taro and kau in vnrlety of sweet potato) In common with the natives, and upon birds and animals which he caught by means of snares. Several times the Australians search ed for him, but Detzler managed to elude them. He might have stayed Indefinitely in the jungle, but mission aries told the Papuans of the armistice and they In turn told him. Thereupon he surrendered to the nearest Austra lian officer. While living throughout the war nt Mismls, Detzler wore only a lava lava (native kilt). The result Is that he Is almost as brown as a Papuan. He now wears a German uniform. HOW DEPTH BOMB STARTED British Admiral Responsible for Wea pon That Revolutionized Anti submarine Warfare. New York. How the submarine depth bomb, familiarly referred to as "ash can." came Into being to revolu tionize antisubmarine warfare was re lated here by Bear Admiral William S. Sims, commander during the war of the American naval forces overseas. Rear Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, chief of staff to Admiral Jel llcoe, was the author of the Idea, Ad miral Sims said, giving as his authority Admiral Jelllcoe. The Idea came to Admiral Madden, he continued while the British officer All the convenience of gas without the dust and dirt of coal or wood Pearl Oil, the Standard Oil Company's kero sene, is one of the most convenient and economi cal fuels you can use. Easy to handle. With a good oil cookstove you will cook in com fort all year 'round. Bakes, broils, roasts, toasts economically. Lights at the touch of a match. No waiting for fires to come up, no unnecessary work, no wiste. Concentrates a steady heat on the cooking leaving, the kitchen cool and com fortable. 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The depth bombs evolved contnlned 300 pounds of trinitrotoluol nnd were capable of wrecking a submarine. SPOIL 0. HENRY'S SKETCHES Texas Workmen Tear Down Bullet Ing Where the Author Was Employed. Austin, Tex. Sketches on the walls of the old land office building on the rapltol grounds, drawn by O. Henry the author, while he was a clerk In the stnteliouse here, are being destroy ed. Workmen are tearing down the building. O. Henry, In his adolescence, pub lished a little weekly, The Rolling Stone, worked In the land office as a clerk, and worked prodigiously on the stories thnt Inter were to entertain an army of readers. 1 His real name was Sidney Porter, and he was then unknown to fame. No one seems to remember whether be was a good clerk, and those who have seen the sketches say that as an artist he was a good story teller. rtrlrtrCrCrtrClirrCrtrtrCrCirCtt Kaiser's Youngest Son Hopes to Live in U. S. Geneva. 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