It is estimated that radio telephony in New York alone already numbers among its devotees more than 250,000 owners of receiving sets, while 20,000 amateurs are sending. out nightly messages.
One of the interesting puzzles was discussed at the exposition why the wireless waves do not act like light waves. The two kinds are believed to be identical except as to length, the wireless waves ranging up to 10 miles long and the light waves down to the billionth part of an inch. Why light will not turn a corner while wireless waves will curve around the surface of the earth jis another mystery discussed.
One of the theories advanced by radio experts was that fine particles composing an invisible smoky enveloped about the sun are projected by the force of the sun's light into the outer atmosphere of the earth, where they form. conducting en-Mea She earth Another dis-velo} niding the radio waves
covery explained was the recent one that wireless waves fade out a few hundred or thousand miles away from the point of origin, become powerful again 12,500 miles away, or at the Antipodes.
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