. Review of reviews and world's work. anifest thatordinary steamships or sailing vessels, and light-ships and lighthouses, cannot maintain powerfulinstallations, nor can they command the servicesof experts to manipulate wireless tuning appar-atus to minimize or eliminate interference. Fur-thermore, the attunement of wireless systems onshipboard or on lighthouses to one or more setof electric waves is obviously not desirable,inasmuch as in case of need these vessels andstations should be able to interchange communi-cation with any system within their influence. An international wireless telegra
. Review of reviews and world's work. anifest thatordinary steamships or sailing vessels, and light-ships and lighthouses, cannot maintain powerfulinstallations, nor can they command the servicesof experts to manipulate wireless tuning appar-atus to minimize or eliminate interference. Fur-thermore, the attunement of wireless systems onshipboard or on lighthouses to one or more setof electric waves is obviously not desirable,inasmuch as in case of need these vessels andstations should be able to interchange communi-cation with any system within their influence. An international wireless telegraphy confer-ence was held in Berlin last summer for theconsideration of matters of the nature just men- WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY TO-DAY. 197 tioned, and of others analogous thereto, and anumber of rules were adopted for the properregulation of wireless telegraph operations inthe best interests of all concerned. ACTION BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. It has recently been reported that the UnitedStates Government has under consideration the. REGINALD A. FESSENDEN. advisability of obtaining, by Congressional enact-ment or otherwise, the exclusive control of allwireless telegraph stations on the coasts of thiscountry, on the ground that only in this waycan the coast be properly defended in time of war,so far as wireless telegraphy may be useful tothat end. In no other way, it is intimated, can in-terference between conflicting wireless stations beprevented and the proper control and systemiza-tionof the wireless service be successfully broughtabout. At the present time, at least four dif-ferent wireless systems are employed by variousdepartments of the United States Government,—namely, the Slaby-Arco, by the navy department;the Braun system, by the army, for land opera-tions ; the Wildman system, by the Signal Corpsof the army, and the Fessenden system, or a modi-fication of that system, by the Weather Wildman system is understood to be a com-bination, with improvements by
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