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...locomotive was a 50-watt radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...
...took out my famed Patent No. 7777, for a 'tuned' or syntonized system of wireless telegraphy, permitting the clearer re ception of messages, and of more than one message simultaneously on the same antenna. By 1901 I had so built up the power of my transmitter that I attempted talking from Cornwall to Newfoundland-with success on the very first trial. (This feat bore out my old contention, assailed by many, that the curvature of the earth would not impede the progress of electric waves.) The following year saw the extension of transatlantic communication to Capes Breton...
...reading is the whole tuning up process. A motor generator set, driven by a storage battery which the engine charges just as an automobile does, supplies the necessary pressure of 1,000 volts. Two hundred feet of trailing wire, let out when the plane leaves the ground, constitutes the antenna...
...touch with stations in cities as far away as New York and Schenectady, in spite of the disturbing influence of the storm. To the great surprise of those present, he was able to get remarkable results by putting his fingers on the tapes to which the antenna wires were originally attached, thereby proving that the human body may serve as an antenna under certain conditions...
...also voted to remodel completely the apparatus and the antenna system, which would enable the club to begin active operation in about a month and to communicate by radio with Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth...