N.Z. INVENTIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2615, 24 September 1909, Page 5

N.Z. INVENTIONS.

IMPROVED TELEPHONE TRANSMITTER AND FIRE ALARM.

[Per Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 23. Mr. M. Moloney, of the staff of the local telegraph office, and the inventor of a long distance telephone transmitter, known as the Tandem Looseback, left to-day for Sydney en route by the Orient steamer Osterley for England. His transmitter is a device constructed on the principle of the human car, and it is claimed that by means of it long distance telephoning is greatly facilitated, and that, for ordinary use, conversations can he carried on in whispers by persons using the telephone in crowded rooms, where others are talking. It is Mr. Moloney’s intention, when in England, to ascertain whether or not his invention has been fprestallod, and if not, to place it on the European market. Mr. Moloney is also taking to Europe a fire alarm indicator, known as the Moloney-Ross fire alarm. Mr. John Ross, of the Christchurch telegraph office, who is copatentee with Mr. Moloney ol iir telephone transmitter, intends for the United! States in about six weeks’ time in order to plater the mwecKS ton th<; r< v nr e S ei! ia.fcives of vention be that country.