Linking Up of Land and Wireless Services Capt. J. A. Slee, in the Enggineering Section of the british Association -Congress, described "Recent Developments of Wireless Telegraphy in the Mercantile Marine."
Many improvements, he said, had been effected during the last 18 months. The application of modern researches enabled very. high speeds to be attained, and by, the use of automatic transmitting Transatlantic ships could now communicate at the rate of 00 words per minute at a distance of 700 miles. Tuning with a view to protection from interference had also been improved, and this was of great importance owing to. the increasing number of powerful stations. Steady progress continued to be made in the use of wireless in direction finding, and the aim had been to render the apparatus independent of the ordinary wireless outfit and: place' it directly under the control of the navigating officer.
Experiments were in progress with the idea of extending the facilities of the land telephone service to ships, and similar work on a larger scale was being carrie ed out in America.
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