The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-29
Italian Inventor Sending Telegraph
Messages Without Wires.
ACROSS THE NORTH SEA
LONDON TIMES PRINTS THE
FIRST WIRELESS DISPATCH.
Complete Success of the Wireless
System Is Demonstrated - Mes
sages Easily Transmitted a Dis
tance of Thirty-two Mi1es-oper-
ates In all Kinds of Weather.

London, March 29.-GugIielmo Marconi.
the inventor. who recently. after long de-
lay, obtained permission from the French
government to establish a station on the
French coast for the purpose of expert
menting with wireless telegraphy between
England and France, announces that he
has conducted successful experiments be-
tween the South Foreiand, county of Kent
and Boulogne, at the mouth of the Lianne.
The Times this morning prints a 100
word dispatch. the first press message 10y
the Marconi system of wireless teleg-
raphy describing the experiments be-
tween the South FOreland and BOulogne.
Inc experiments were conducted with the
morse code, which was read as distinctly
as II the termini had been connected with
wires
The South Foreland is the most easterIy
Iand III England, consisting of q chalky
Gilt about 200 feet in height. projecting
INTO the North sea, and having two light
houses, with an elevation of S72 feet
Signor Marconfs system of wireless
biography has been in practical operation
on the Engllsh coast for several months
between the South Foreland lighthouse
andthe EaSP Goodwin light ship a dis
tance of twelve miles
The distance from South Foreland light
mouse to BOulOgne-SuT-Mer is thirty-two
miles. the greatest previous distance Gov
ever having been eighteen miles between
Poole and Bournemouth in England An
experience Of fourteen months had shown
him that no kind of weather would stop
the working of his apparatus. The YER
teal conductor he used is the main fea-
ture of his system, and he has round that
distance to which SignaIS NAV he sent
length of this conductor. For signalling
eighteen miles he used a conductor eighty
feet high. and in his application to NJ.
Lockroy, he contended that with con-
ductor ia feet high he could establish
communication between points on opposite
sides of the strait of Dover and even go
that distance ten miles better.
His experiments have already proved
that when such vertical wire or con-
ductOr is employed no hihdrance TO sig
Mailing is caused by hills OF other OBJ
StacleS. or by the curvature Of the earth.
One of his most interesting and valuable
experiments was the installation lifted up
last autumn between Osborne House. Isle
of Wight. and the royal yacht which
the Prince of Wales was recuperating
after his accident. This gave an Uppor-
Unity 10 study the effect of Intervening
hills. and as the yacht moved about to
various positions doubts were set 1T rest
as to the possibility of teIegraphing across
long stretches of land Communication
between lightships and shore is a matter
of great importance. and the wireless sys-
TEN between South FOreland lighthouse
and East Goodwin light ship worked
through the fiercest storms of the latter
part of February without interruption. the
messages DelnS uaSHed CONIlnuaily from
ship to shore. and vice versa.
Signor MarcOni is much the most sue
cessful eXperimenter among The many
who have worked along the same lines.
He is now in his 10Th year. He is an
Italian and it was in italy that he began
his special work. The Italian government
paid him a large sum of money for his
invention. to be used on waTships From
Italy he went to England and his sue
cess there has already interested Emperor
William. who has instructed German ex-
perts to experiment with the wireless sys-
tenn for the benefit of the German army
and navy He recently illustrated the
principle of his system by likening it to
that upon which tuning work will re-
spond TO vibrations caused by striking an
other tuning fork near it.