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could detect treces of of ore in
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less tat
Randwicl if tho work of Pathos Shaw
and Mr, Wilkinson.

They make their own machigery and
instruments, Up to the ‘present ¢ they
have not been able to transmit mes-
st over a greater distance than 250
miles, but they are busy at work on
ear ‘which will enable them to talk
500 miles away. Bet shoeeh they |

tance, they have heard others with
more powerful instruments, ai
stance, the Powerful at Fremantle, and
RMS. Matera at ha on Mr Wikia
e to produce, if” possible,
an Australian system of wireless tele-
grapl that is to say, an improve-
ment upon other systems. One of the
greatest needs in wireless is a we

recorder, In ordinary telegraphy we
have the tape machine, whicl are
us the message writtén, Father Shaw
and his youthful partner would like to
provide a similar recorder in wireless.
and it is said that their experiments
so far arove that the thing is feasible
enon,

‘The progress of wireless telegray
in Australia would seem to depen:
some measure upon the assistance ac-
corded to private experimenters by. the
Government. The naval authorities
naturally do not weleome intruders
in a sphere which has hitherto been
their monopoly. | They want the sky
to themselves when warship talks to
warship across the ether. da America
an arrangement i come to
whereby the A ity are the free
lise of the sky for the first half of each
hour, commercial business and private
experimenters taking precedence the
next half hour.