NEW INVENTION TO
REVOLUTIONIZE WIRELESS
“I wlU wager a largo sum mat 1 can
attach my newly devised wireless ap
paratus to a barbed wire fence and
copy messages from the German sta
tions."
Such Is the claim made by Henry C.
Gawler, U. S. radio Inspector for the
New England district.
Mr. Gawler has added another to
the scientific achievements of the
twentieth century He has Invented
a new wireless tuner which will do
away with the necessity for the high
aerial wires, now a common sight at
government and private stations. His
apparatus makes entirely unnecessary
the costly overhead construction of
such stations at the navy wireless at
Chelsea, the Tufts college station at
Medford, or the huge aerials of the
government stations at Wellfieet and
Bank Rock. Hereafter It will be pos
tiblt to receive messages from Europe
through wires no higher than a
clothesline. In fact, at his home in
Bomerville, Mass., with a wire running
from his back porch to an apple tree,
and without any of the supposedly
necessary special Insulation, Mr. Gaw
ler has for weeks been successfully
copying the European stations as easily
or he could a sputerlng amateur ai
Dorchester. A tremendous new stride
In wireless achievements has bene made
The possibilities growing out of this
Intention are limitless.
According to Mr. Gawlsr, half ot
the credit for this Invention Is due
to Hervert M. Hammett, a dealer Ir
hardware at No. 4 Blue Hill avenue
Roxbury. an amateur wireless fan who
with a little station In a room above
his store, was one of those who likely
added his contribution to the wlreles
bedlam which pertained before the
government stepped In with the restrlc
tlon to the 200 metre wave for ama
teurs.
But Mr. Hammfett was possessed o!
that restlessness which Is the portlor
of Inventors and in him Gawler foun.
a kindred spirit. The two startec
taking things apart and putting then
together again, fussing with this ant
fussing with that, seeing what mad<
the wheels go round and trying t<
reproduce the action until, all at once,
tuey hit on an luea—the Idea that
expensive aerial wires bore the same
relation to wireless apparatus that
pneasant's plumage does to millinery
—they were unnecessary.
So, without saying anything about
it. the two got together again. They
took a tuner and built It in halves
and put it back together again and
monkeyed with it and fool«d with It
changed it and fussed with It and at
•ast, atfer weeks and weeks, they got
what they were after.
From a simple wire less than 40 feet
from the ground and only 226 feet long,
they heard the wireless interchange at
stations in Germany. They also hearty
stations In the Canal tone and In
Newcastle, Newfoundland. Then they
know they had done something. But
even then they didn’t say anything
about It. Gavler took the apparatus
down to his office In the custom house
.ower, in Boston, hung a wire from the
window of the 26th floor down to his
office on the 7th floor and tried it
again.
Ho cut in. There were the Qennans
stations going It. Not, mind you, a
German station working with Ameri
ca, but two stations In Germany
working back and forth. And the
record was no clearer with the height
of 26 floors of the custom house than
,t was with the simple wire running
i>om Hammett’s hardware store to the
rest building.
Then they were sure they had It at
last. At this time a reporter from the
Record heard of it and is the first to
tell the news to the world.
This Invention doesn’t mean much
! to laymen. It appeals to them as one
j more Invention In a world already full
’ of patents. The public regards won
] lerful mechanical achievement* now
! >days as Its right and kicks if the
windows of the new apartments don’t
have self starters or the gas stove
, lacks an egg announcer. They expect
such things and only notice then:
i when they don’t work.
But to the wireless men this .nven
i don Is a real thing. They realise that
i la great revolution in wireless methods
ia due to taka place. The manager la
the Marconi Co. In Boston went out
to Robury to aee what they were doing.
t To be quite accurate, he went to scoff.
But he rem '.ned to wonder when
' they let him aet down to an Instru
ment and hear the unmistakable ac
tivity of two German commercial wire
less stations. And be was speechless
when they took him out In the back
yard and showed him the wire that
waa getting the stuff. He didn’t be
lieve It. But—he had to believe It.
i Wireless men will tell you, after
looking over the Hammett station at
Roxbury, that a more unlikely location
for ft wireless station could not be
found In a days’ march. The rules of
the wireless game require the absence
of electrical Interference, but here, on
tho contrary, there la every possible
obstacle. The building Is altuated
between, and not over 25 feet from the
electric car lines, the Dudley street
and the Blue Hill avenue tracks, and
on the corner just outside the window
there la an arc light. Theoretically, no
’ wireless apparatus would work suc
cessful there. If at alL
And yet, between 10 and 12 o’clock
today, a reporter from the Record ea*
there and heard Elvorse and Nausen.
Germany, holding ft conversation as
clearly and distinctly aa If they were
j in the next room. Such Is the par
ticularity of Mr. Hammett that he is
not satisfied with hearing the German
I stations. He has rigged a largo
photograph horn ao that the sputtering
of the dots and dashes Is magnified In
volume and he can go to bed and hear
j them. Not only that. People across
tho street have heard them through
^ the open window.
Hammett was a pioneer In making
phonographic records of wireless mea
: sages He attached a wireless receiving
apparatus to a phonograph by some
electrical method of his own and set
j up In the needle of the phonograph
the vibrations of sound coming lu
through space so that he got the whole
j thing on the wax.
Hammett la a wizard, with a tre
mendous aversion to publlcttly He
prefers to hide his electric light under
FIRST DISCOVERY OF
GOLD IN ALASKA
It U Interesting to note at this time
that the first discovery of gold In
Alaska was made during the Russian
occupation, on the Anauk river, a
tributary of the Kuskokwlm.
The Anauk river was discovered by
a Russian trader, Slmensen Luken, In
iti: at which time he built a fort,
called Lukeens' fort, on the Kusko
kwlm, 25 miles above the mouth of the
Anauk. It was partially destroyed by
natives In 1*41, and rebuilt by Kalma
koft, a Russian trader, and afterward
called Kalmakoff Redoubt.
In 1812 tha headquatrers of the
Russian American Fur Company were
At Sitka, and supplies were transport
ed from there to Lukeen’s fort by way
of Nuahagak river. Tlc-chlc river and
lake down the Anauk to tha Kusko
kwlm, and thence by team 26 miles
to the fort. |
In 1S37 the yearly supplies weer sent
In by way of the mouth of the Kus
kokwlm river and the old way aban
doned as a summer route and used only
for the purpose of sending out the
mall during the winter by dog team.
It was the only winter route the
Russians ever used from any point on
the Yukon to the outside (Sitka), and
was only abandoned for the purpose
after they letf the country.
It was while on one of these trips,
In 16*2, that the Russians discovered
! gold on the Anauk, and It Is known
today as the Yellow river of the Rus
sians. It Is not known whether they
ever attempted mining on a large seal*
or whether they found gold In paying
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Roman letters of various sixes are
commonly called Into request by oculists
in testing vision. Recent experiences
show great difference In the case with
which the various letters are recog
nised by the same person. T Is especial
ly difficult of recognlxatlon and Is apt
to be mistaken for T. By a similar
optical Illusion the angle of L Is
rounded off. making the letter resem
ble s reserved J. V Is the easiest of
all letter to recognise, and O presents
little difficulty. K in acre easily
recognised than H, which reaemblei
It closely, and both N and Z an
easily recognised. A Is easily guessed
at from its general form, but Is dlf
rtcult of positive recognition. lnc’^
lng distinct perception of the horl
tontal line. E. and F are among th»
most difficult of all letters
. NOTICE.
The piece to yet your Job printing a<
,-jght Prioee and prompt delivery k
at the Nugget office.
quantitlee. but It ie the flret time on
record of gold being found In thla
country.
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;-- iia-w- t; - t, r. -..i-fciri.u.-irw ■ —*■
a bushel. He and Gawier might
patent this new tuner of theirs and
probably make a great deal of money
from It. On the contrary they are
going to turn It over to the govern
ment and let everybody get the bene
fit of It. Qawier, because he works
for the government and Hammett be
cause he has reward enough In having
done the thing.
Some of the work done by the two
men must have been very dlscourag
lng. The room at Blue Hill avenue Is
filled with cast oft and unsuccessful
appa. atus. The flrBt tuner they
evolved, In trying to receive the for
elgn operators, was so large that a
tackle was necessary to move It up
and down. This tuner Is now absolute
ly accurate, but the lates* development
of the pair Is so much smaller and
easier to handle that It Is preferable.
The new tuner can easily be carried
about by one person. And this tuner
Is, of courBe.the crux of the whole
matter.—Boston Record.
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