Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1913 — "Radiograms.” [ARTICLE]

"Radiograms.”

Messages sent and received by what is called wireless telegraphy are hereafter to be “radiograms” to the navy department. The word is certainly an Improvement on the clumsy "wireless,” but it is not particularly good, since radiation is by no means peculiar to this form of communisation. Indeed, there is some excuse for denying that in it there are any "rays” at all, In the sense commonly given to that term. "Telegrams,” as originally sent, really were written from a distance, but in the new process the man who sends the message creates no record of it at the point of receiving, and he is therefore hardly a "radiographer,” and no more is the man who takes the sounds be hears and records them as letters. -y "Radiogram” is too obviously a mere adoption of "telegram.” The two processes have little in common, and though both make use of electricity, the nature of the uses is entirely different. At least it seems to be; nobody knows very clearly what is done in either case.