WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
EXPERIMENTS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AFRICA.
United Press Association— tCopybight LONDON, Sept. 13. The “Daily Mail’s” Durban correspondent states that experiments are shortly to be made with the view of establishing a wireless service between Britain and South Africa. There is a proposal to have an elevated kite., a thousand feet high, at Cornwall, to collect Hertzian waves. If this project is unsuccessful, the alternative will be to erect a station at Gibraltar. The stations would cost £50,000 each. If the undertaking is successful, the South African Union Government will grant £IOOO per annum and reduce the proposed general service of a shilling per word tariff by a penny, A grant of £IO,OOO would make the rate a penny a word.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2607, 15 September 1909, Page 5
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122WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2607, 15 September 1909, Page 5
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