Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1909 — Short Distance Wireless. [ARTICLE]

Short Distance Wireless.

A list of wireless stations recently compiled by tire navy department at Washington gives the total number as 782. .The ordinary employment of this method of communication has lifted it to an assured position as a business adjunct. Long distance stunts are. not demanded by the public as proof of wireless practicability. Quality of service has improved, and a steady development in the industry is reported. This country takes high rank in commanding the wireless service for a variety of short distance purposes. One company has 277 stations on the Atlantic coast, twenty-six on the Pacific and seven on the great lakes and operates, besides, 103 shipboard stations. The government uses the system extensively on the seacoasts and on vessels of all descriptions. In many operations connected with the sea wireless telegraphy is recognized as a necessity, and recently a bill was introduced in the national senate providing that all passenger steamships having a capacity of fifty passengers or more must be equipped with efficient wireless apparatus. Wireless has ceased to be a novelty, but its growth in usefulness and favor is shown by the Installment of circuit after circuit with advantage to communities and to the nation.