The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-18
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.


the world are to look rather to the in
ventive genius OF mankind for relief from
their expressions than to any operations
OF law For instance. we have been for
many years the subject OF continuous
plumber by men like Jay Gould who
seized upon and monopolized the tele-
graph lines. They bonded and stocked
them for many times their cost, and then
charged rates that would pay interest
upon all this bogus capitalization: they
then took possession OF the courts and
congresses: accumulated immense for
tunes and dehed all efforts at reform
1t was apparent to every one that there
was no more reason why communication
between citizens, written with pen and
ink. should be carried by the government
than there was why communications
written by electricity, along a wire should
not be carried in the same way. But all
protests have been in vain 1t looked as
II nothing but armed revolution could
overthrow the power OF the plutocracy in
this particular.
But the inventive genius of man has
come to the peoples rescue 1t has now
been discovered that, by certain mech
ansm. telegraph messages can be sent
through the air without wire. probably
for any distance. The result is that the
telegraph companies stock fell in one
week from I8o to 100: and the scientific
men OF the whole world are now hard at
work perfecting this wireless telegraph.
Here is a clipping upon the subject:
Notre Dame Ind. April 2o--Professor
Green's experiments with the Marconi
system OF wireless telegraphy were made
this afternoon at a greater distance than
he has yet tried. The sending station was
again placed near the university flag
staff and the metal sphere and vertical
wire were elevated to the top OF the pole.
he receiving starlOn was temporarily re-
moved from St. Marys Academy to the
water tower in South Bend The dis
lance between the sending and receiving
posts was two and one-half miles The
tests were made at intervals OF thirty
minutes
liz impulses Stlll nom ISOFTc Lame
were perceived at the water tower in the
city. It. is supposed that the strength OF
the signals was impaired by the large
amount OF iron in the frame work of the
tower. The same difficulty was expert
enced in the use OF the Eiffel tower in
Paris as a receiving station In spite of
the disadvantages under which Professor
Green worked, the signals were made
out distinctly. The experiment was sus-
pended on account of the lateness OF the
hour without an attempt being made to
increase the strength of the impulses.
The coherer used today was readjusted.
Its normal resistance is 100000 ohms,
which was reduced to 7o5.Ioo ollms BY
the influence of the electric waves Final
adjustments OF the instruments are nee
essary before more delicate work is pos
Slble. The distance covered today thor
Oughly satisfied Professor Green.
Messages have been sent from France
to England and it is now suggested that
the Roentgen Rays and the Crooke's
Tube can be utilized to increase the dis
lance to which these messages may be
carried
OF course the plutocrats will make a
rush to secure patents upon this inven-
ton. and keep it from the use OF the
common people.
Our patent laws are all wrong. as we
advocated twenty years ago, an inventor
should receive the returns from his in
vention until he was paid fixed sum,
say SIoo 900 or $500, 900, and then the dis
covery should be free to all the world.
And it should be provided that this re-
ward should go to the inventor himself
and not to those who take advantage of
his necessities to buy up the patent for a
song. AS rule men who have made
our most valuable inventions have died
in poverty while some brainless scamp,
who had not intellect enough to invent
anything has sailed off with millions Of
dollars.
But it may be difficult for the specula-
tors to get possession of this new and
wonderful discovery 1t is simply a re-
velation OF new powers in nature: and
should no more be the subject of patent
than the force of the suns rays, or the
movement of the tides
But we will see what we shall see.
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