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.
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'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
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was aboard n cruiser which sighted a
submarine. The cruiser gave chase, he
said, but as It drew near the submarine
submerged. Admiral Madden, cba
grlnned at the cruiser's failure to "get"
the submarine, exclaimed:
"Why wouldn't It be a good Idea to
work up some sort of a device to
drop on these Huns!"
Other officers approving the plan, the
cruiser put bnck to port, where the
Idea was presented to Admiral Jelllcoe.
Hp npproved the plan, nnd munition
expert! were put to work devising the
"ash can."
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.
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Kaiser's Youngest Son
Hopes to Live in U. S.
Geneva. The former Prlnco
Tinphlm nt frhn Hnhpnznl Iprn
family hopes to emigrate to
America ntter peace is sigueu.
c according ro rcpon.
f Joachim, who Is the youngest
son of the former German em
peror, has arrived here from
Berlin, and expresses his Inten
tion of remaining In Switzerland
until after the peace settlement.
The Hohenzollerns have lust
bought a large estate near Lu- jf
gnno, wnere uie mwuuw cmy.:,
or eventually hopes to reside In
exile.
Waited Forty Years for 8on'e Return.
Berwick, Pa. When Lawrence
Boyd left here for Seattle, Wash., la
1879, his mother expressed the hops
that she would live to see him return.
Although she had to live to be eighty
six years old, she has enjoyed the
(ulnllment of her wish; the son re
turned a few days ago on his first
visit In forty years.
In spite of his utter failure ns a
prophet, the ground bog will be back
uext year appeallBg to the credulous
as tfofily as ever.
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