Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — WIRELESS FOB ARMY FLIERS [ARTICLE]

WIRELESS FOB ARMY FLIERS

Instruments for Aeroplane Use Invented by Officer Weighs Only 25 Pounds. Washington.—Probably the smallest wireless telegraph set ever made has just been perfected by the officers in the army signal corps laboratory hero, land has been sent to New York for the aeronautical show which is to be held there. The receiving and transmitting apparatus weighs only 25ft pounds, and is confined within a box jls inches square and 18 inches deep. iTbe generator from which the apparatus derives its power adds an additional 28 pounds. The machine is the reslut of the efforts of the army signal officers under the direction of Maj. Charles McK. saltxman, to perfect the lightest machine possible for use in the "fifth military arm." or the aeronautifc&l division.