Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — Railroad Time by Wireless. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Time by Wireless.

The Compagnie du Nord of France is the first railroad of the world offlcially to adopt the regulation of its timepieces by wireless, time signals. Railroads ordinarily regulate the star tion clocks on their lines by means of signals that are transmitted over the telegraph wires. This method frequently interrupts the regular telegraphic service, and is open to other objections. Wireless time signals, on the other hand, cause no Interruption of the regular service. They are received each morning at 17 of the principal stations on the line of the French railroads from toe national bureau in the Eiffel tower. The receiver, which is a small and portable apparatus, is connected with a very simple “aerial” made up of one wire or two parallel wires 150 feet or more long, stretched between two ordinary telegraph poles.