Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-29
Cuglielmo MacaIonl, Italian lnven-
tor, RcvoIu,ionizes Telegraphy,
MESSAGE ACROSS TIE SEA.
,a,so, Times print. the first Wire
les. Di.pateb-rhc system !. u"
Emphatic Success.

london. March ga.-Gugllclmo Mar
conf. the inventor. who recently after
long delay. obtained permission from
the French government to establish
,t,fion on the French coast for the
uurposc ~ experimenting with wireless
i.ierraphy between England and
France. announces that he has conduct
81 aucccsafui experiments between the
Fiuth Forcinnd. county u Kent. and
Hsuiognc. at the mouth or the Lianne.
The Times this morning prints 100
word Dispatch. the nrst press message
b. the Marconi system Of wireless
tsiegraphy. describing the experiments
t.tWern the South Furcinnd and lou.
iurup The experiments We're conducted
with the Morse code, which was rcad
o. distinctly NJ " the termini had been
connected with wires.
The South Foruland IL the most east
erly land Ia England, conaisting u a
ehaiky elm about 80 feet In height.
Projecting into the North sea. and hav-
Ing two lirht houses, with an elevation
" li2 feet. slgnur Mnrconia System or
wireless tclcgrnphy has been IN prac-
ucal operation on the English coast Tor
several months between the Suuth
Portland lighthouse and the East Good
win light ship. a distance Of twelve
The distance from souih Portland
llrht house to lioulogne.Sur.h cf w
thlrty-two miles. the greatest previous
distance covered having been eighteen
miles. between Iolic and Hourncmouth.
In England. An experience OF fourteen
months had shown him that no Kind Of
weather would stop the working % his
apparatus. The vertical conductor DC
urod IL the main feature OF his System
and he has found that distance 90
which signals may be- sent varies ne.
uofding to tho square q the length "
this conductor Fur signalling eighteen
miles h. used conductor eighty fcrt
high. and In his application 10 ~. Lock.
roy. he contendcd that with a con-
ductor ~ fcvt HIGH he could establish
communication between points On op.
puflte Sides % the strait u Dover. ana
even go that distance ton miles better.
Ills experiments have alrcady proved
that when such a vertical wire or cou-
ductnr IA employed no hlndiance a. sig
Mailing ~ caused by hills OF other OBJ
staclcH. Or By tho curvature u the
earth. one " his most interesting and
valuable experiments wnH the inatnila-
ton ntted NJ Inst autumn between or-
hufnr House. Isle ~ Wight and the
royal yacht ON which the Prince II
Wales WAS fccupcratinR after his accl-
dent TINS NnNr an urlnl lunltl 10
study the effect ~ intervening hills,
and ~ tho yacht moved about 10 vari-
Gus positions doubts were set at rcat NJ
o. tho possibility 81 teicfraphing across
hong stretches of land. Communication
between liFhtHhipa and shore u mat
tor of great Importance and the wire.
less system between South PORTLAND
lighthouse aud Fast Goodwin lishtrhiT
worked through the ficrccst storms VI
the latter part ~ February without In.
terruptinu. the messages being dashed
continually from ship to shore, and vie,
versa.
signor Marconi II much the most sue
cessfnl eNpcrimcntnr among the many
whu have worked along the same lines
lie II now In his slth year. iic N nu
Italian and II was IN Itniy that he be-
gan his special work. The Italian gov,
ernment paid him large sum ~ money
Tor his Invention, 60 be- use IN war,
ships. From Italy he went a. England
and his success there has already In
tefrHtrd Emperor William. who has
Instructed German experts o. expert
mcni with the wireless system Tor Tho
hrncnt ~ tho German army ana navy
lie recently Illustrated the principle ol
HE system hy iikeninF II to that upon
which tuning work VIII ruaunnd o. VI,
hratinua caused ~ striking another
tuulnN fork near "a.