Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1920 — Wireless for Shipwrecked. [ARTICLE]

Wireless for Shipwrecked.

However well equipped with wireless a ship may be, an accident that results in its sinking puts an end to its distress signals, and may not even allow time to begin them, leaving its hurriedly manned lifeboats without any means of communication with each other or with a rescue ship. An eastern inventor has designed a simple and compact radio system intended as permanent equipment for one or more lifeboats on each vessel, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The wireless apparatus, used for both telegraphing and telephoning, Is inclosed in a water-tight box at the stern, and grounded through a metal plate on the bottom of the boat. To shut out extraneous sounds and a#l to the sensitiveness- of the set, the operator is equipped with - a helmet containing the telephone receivers.