The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-02
The WIRELESS TELEGRAPH
Important Experiments Made by Sig
nor Macaroni, In Italy.

Rome Dispatch to New York Journal:
The principal question which occupies
the Italian press at the present moment
is the wireless biography of Signor
Gulielmo Marconi. Signor Marconi has
during the last few days carried out
important experiments in Rome in the
| presence of their majesties, members
of the government and of the press.
On behalf of the New York Journal
/ had an interview yesterday with the
| inventor, who, as is pretty well known,
is young man about % years old He
was born at Bologna, and was trained
! at the local university under the cele-
DRAFTED Professor Guidi The following
statement was written down by Signor
Marconi himself in my notebook:
Electricity, which is so docile when
produced by ordinary methods for the
purpose of sending il along copper
wires to its destination, or for trans
forming it into light, heat or movement,
can become nervous when the current
is forced to oscillate in a conductor.
Let US compare the current to human
patience. If you compel a poor wretch
to go backward and forward for an
indefinite number of times he ends at
last by manifesting outbursts of in
sanity. Hence in obliging the current
to go backward and forward 250, 000, 900
times in the space of second it be-
comes something quite different. It's
violent outbursts are styled an electric
wave. and the apparatus which pro-
duces the wave is called the oscillator.
I'm order TO make my meaning clear
err, 1 might say that the electric wave
resembles the sound which is produced
by vibrating blade and 1t has all the
modulations of sound, from low TO high
tonal;ty
THE electric wave has also IN an
alogy with light, and like that it can
be reflected, intercepted and so forth
The same wave can pass through
space and through matter and Il Is
transmissible by night and by day, IN
wet or in fine weather. This is the
preface. And now TO understand wire
less telegraphy is easy enough. Just
imagine an oscillator. which is merely
an apparatus by which the current pro-
duced by a battery or an influencing
machine oscillates 50,O0O,O00 times
second and produces the electric wave;
now imagine a copper mirror which
gathers up these waves in order to
assign them a direction and you will
have an essence of vitality thrown
into the invisible, to be there picked :
up and induced to influence another
apparatus, which is called the reson- /
ator. This resonator can be placed at
the distance of several kilometres, ana
in a spot invisible from the place /
where the electric wave has originated. /
THE resonator is an apparatus which /
one can compare to an electric eye, be- |
cause under the influence of electric |
rays it causes a hammer to vibrate /
against a crystal tube, which contains /
a coating Of metals so arranged that /
under the influence of the waves they /
can vary the current which produces
the oscillations of the hammer. Up to
the present, transmissions without
wires have been effected up to a dis
lance of Is Kilometres
So much for Signor MarconIs own
statement, but he answered several
questions which 1 put
to him.
DO you think it will be possible to
obtain transmissions over distances
greater than Is kilometres ?"
II am sure of it. The distance will
increase in proportion as it is possible
to augment the force of the electric
current and the resistance of the appa-
ratus.'
DO you think it will one day be pos