In Honolulu, a photograph was wrapped upon a glass tube. Within the tube was an electric light. Without was a photosensitive apparatus. The wrapped tube revolved slowly and the photosensitive apparatus translated light and shade into dots and dashes on a telegraph key.
The key was attached to a telegraph wire that carried the dots and dashes to powerful radio station KIE at Kahuku. There ether waves, 16,975 metres long, were given impulse as the dots and dashes came in.
In all directions around Kahuku, the ether waves flooded out. Some of them, after...
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