Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — AEROPLANES TO USE WIRELESS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AEROPLANES TO USE WIRELESS.

A great oird, man-made, man-ridden, rises frbm the ground to soar into the ethereal elements, its spreading wings motionless as the pinions of frigate bird or crane. Swifter than the swiftest bird that flies; this marvel of the age deserts the terrestrial for the celestial regions with the leaping flight of the flying fish. Up. up, it mounts and through space it darts. Presently the navigator, gazing down, beholds a living map. A panorama of the enemy’s country is beneath him. He is able to observe the field works, the troops, the position of the fleet, the state of preparedness in dockyard and arsenal. He photographs this chart of the enemy's operations on the sensitive eye of the camera. But, more than this, he flashes back the vital information over the aerial route he has traveled to an electrical eye that records the word picture instantaneously. Back he sends from the machine that sustains him waves of electric power that, traveling through-space at the rate of 185,000 miles a second, bear his message back to the camp. Speeding along the empyreal highway, he telegraphs to a station on the fleeting earth that may be 100 or 1,000 miles away. Is this but the flight of fancy outdistancing the embryonic achievements of the aeroplane and destined to run amuck an Impossibility? Or is the use of the aeroplane as a base for wireless telegraphy an imminent possibility? Frank L. Perry, who has recently delivered lectures in Chicago on this subject before the Lewis Institute branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and other organizations, is of the opinion that when the efficiency of the aeroplane for reconnoitering purposes is absolute the successful transmission of wireless communication from it is eventually assured. With the first successful flight of the aeroplane he recognized at once the field it would.open for new experiments with wireless telegraphy. In his lectures he advanced and demonstrated a plan for equipping the Wright aeroplane, of which he has constructed a model that is perfect in all essentials, with apparatus for sending wireless messages. While purely speculative, there is little doubt that future experiments will be directly along this line. —Chicago Tribune.