International Time and Weather Radio-Telegraphic Signals

Abstract

IT is to the French Government that the world is indebted for the institution of an international conference on the radio-telegraphic distribution of time and weather signals. So long ago as 1908 the Bureau des Longitudes suggested a series of hourly signals from the Eiffel Tower for the determination of longitudes, and this service was brought into active operation in 1910. The great success which the service met with called for a more universal use of it, and to this end the French Government invited a certain number of foreign Governments to send delegates who had studied the problem of radio-telegraphy from the point of view of time and the determination of longitudes.