Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1910 — Wireless Telephone on Trains. [ARTICLE]

Wireless Telephone on Trains.

At last the modern business man can transact his business while aboard a railroad train. Recently a young inventor, Henry Von Kremer, applying the principle of wireless telephonic communication, succeeded in carrying on a conversation from a train going at a rate of 40 miles an hour, with a signal house miles down the track. This feat was accomplished On ths Brighton railway In England. Two lines of,wire were laid along the track, one telephone apparatus was installed in the signal house and another was set up in the baggage car. Von Kremer, on the train, dictated several telegrams to the min in the signal house. Mr. Van Kremer’s Invention is not a new one, but is said to be an improvement over other apparatus, since it does away with all contact with the wires, the impulse “Jumping” the distance of 18 inches between the car bottom and the roadbed. His greatest difficulty was overcoming the induction of the nearby telegraph and telephone wires. He succeeded In doing this by suspending a loop of wire about the car in which his telephone waß stationed, thus cutting off all interfering outside currents. It 1b believed the system can be extended any length.