Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1915 — INVENTS POCKET WIRELESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INVENTS POCKET WIRELESS

New York Man Has Apparatus That Sends and Receives Messages at Distance of 18 Miles. Dr. H. Barrington Cox of Bedford Hills, N. Y., has invented a compact and efficient wireless receiving and lending apparatus which may be strapped about the waist and safely hidden in the folds of a cloak so that it would be invisible to an unsuspecting person. The sending apparatus consists of a box in which

are five dry cells and a vibrator. The electric pulsations are started by tapping a telegraph key, and the current which the doctor says if modified with a hidden transformer of his invention, sends out its messages in waves long and short. The equivalent to a half watt or one-eightieth as much as is required for the ordinary electric light bulb is the amount of electricity necessary. From the box projects a wire. In warfare use this wire is carried down the leg of the soldier, and connected with a metal plate or spur in the shoe. The receiving instrument consists of a drum about which is a coil of wires. On top of this is a very fine deflector. It has a pair of ear pieces such as are worn by telephone operators. Doctor Cox can send and receive messages by his instrument over a distance of 18 miles. The picture shows Doctor Cox with his cane (or receiver) raised for a message.