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Take this message over there, Hiram, and let the Hertzian waves get busy with it at once." "On the jump!" answered Hill. "Better take a five-dollar bill with you," Clancy suggested. Hill picked up the bank note. "I'd like to see that money get dry before we spend it all," he complained, and then went out with the wireless message for Lafe.
The Department of Commerce and Labor notified the White Star Line that customs and immigration inspectors would be sent from Montreal to Halifax in order that there would be as little delay as possible in getting the passengers on trains. Monday night the world slept in peace and assurance. A wireless message had finally been received, reading: "All Titanic's passengers safe."
It will receive wireless telegraph and telephone messages over a range of from 10 to 25 miles. It can also be used to receive either telegraph or telephone messages from distances up to 25 miles. The aerial equipment is not included in this price, but it can be bought for about $2.50 extra. Assembling Your Own Receiving Set.
He watched his master's face, and more than that, he was tuned and keyed to those mysterious vibrations that carry a message from brain to brain no less clearly and swift than words themselves, the secret wireless of the wild. "He's my buddy, old boy, and I want you to find him for me," Ben went on, more patiently.
The invention of aeroplanes and submarine and wireless telegraphy and the like is of no more moment than the fly on the chariot wheel, compared with the vital reconstructions which are now proceeding or imminent.
While Charley was arranging his duffel, two or three dirty youngsters came bouncing into the room and at once began to drag Charley's wireless apparatus from the pasteboard box. With a cry Charley sprang toward them and snatched the instruments out of their hands. The ranger gave a savage oath and aimed a kick at the lads, but they dodged and ran from the room.
The wordless low growl of their voices came up the stairway. Frank made a wireless news station of himself at the upper door. Suddenly he closed the door, hurried to the extreme rear of the room and lighted a dim gas jet. "This way, everybody!" he called sharply. "In a hurry; but no noise, please!" The guests crowded in confusion to the rear.
"That's a good idea," said Casey, the wireless man off duty. "We needn't give any name only a jumble of letters that spell nothing." "How far can you send with what you've got?" asked Jenkins. "With those aërials," answered Casey, glancing aloft at the long gridiron of wires, "about fifty miles." "Not much good, I'm afraid," said Jenkins.
"It is my theory that this wireless is located on the shores of Great Bear Lake. In fact, I believe it is run by an independent trader operating at the east end of that lake, on Conjurer's Bay. A year ago he brought in a small electric plant, to light his trading post, he said. Now this plant is capable of producing an almost unlimited amount of electrical power, provided only time is given.
It was flashed from the wireless station on a lonely cliff in Cornwall to another station in America, and it went over the seven oceans of the world. It was received by forty-five ships in the Atlantic. They were all warned it was coming and they were expecting it. The White Star liner Baltic, 810 miles away, heard it, and it travelled on to India, and it was caught up there 1,500 miles away.
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