The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22

unusual "etheriaP' occurrences. TIL,
Eng1sh navy was experimenting witt
wireless telegraphy at Portsmouth
forty miles beyond, and the Isle Of
| Wight installation kept up a lively ac-
tlon while these experiments were
gong on AS rule, Marconi was kept
INFORMED as 10 the progress of the
navy, while the navy was unable to
tap MS messages. 1t was not a fair
game, IS the admiralty began to re-
! ailze- Now they have arranged with
Marconi for the installation of his sys-
lem' with the latest improvements, on
soine forty vessels. But that, in spite
Oh 1us Importance, is another story.
Nothlng is ever attempted at Mar
conis laboratory that has ever been
oone before. To be sure, the stations
were set up along the beach in the
same way each morning, but no fact
once discovered and verified needed tn
De repeated. Marconi's saying is. "Ir
DO II once, ! can do it again under
the same conditions"
10 the laynlan it would seem that
Mareoni's stations were set I'D in the
same way every day, but the Initiated
observer could not fail to see that there
were dlnerent arrangements each day.
ana AT no time was there a station al
Foole IKE the suspended wire we
nave come to associate with wireless
Geographic apparatus. The vertical wire
was replaced by a cylindrical can
Standing on end and the earth wire bv
d similar can lying so as to make good
edrth connection. To the regular trans
mlttng and receiving instruments were
AIDED coils and resistances for the p1,r-
pose OF varying the capacities of the
upright cylinders. For better. conduct
irac r.f,
near the waters edge, and the earth
can parity sunk in the wet sand. The
instruments We're generally arranged
on tables, and in heavy winds, of which
there were many, the vertical cans had
10 De stayed with guys to keep them
in position.
Facts First; Theories Afterwards.
With such apparatus, Marconi began
series OF experiments last winter.
winch have already led to the discovery
of many important facts in regard tn
wireless biography, and have solved
many Of the most elusive problems that
nave ever been encountered in the de-
VeIoDment of a new science
Maroon often works alphabetically in
stead of analytically. He doesn't waste
tlme and energy asking why a. certain
cause produces a certain effect. He
says rms cause does produce this
erect; l don't know just why, but it
works this way and that is enough" !
rms attitude of mind has led many to |
charge Marconi with being a business |
man instead of a scientist, and. in SO |
-ar as being a scientist means being
impractical, this accusation holds good |
Marcon is in truth d scientist, but he !
constructs his conclusions from actual |
experiments and then verifies these re-
SUITS by theoretical proof, instead of /
making theoretical conclusions and YER
tying by actual trials.
My mind works that wav." saws
narconi, in speaking of the subject
carry a sort of travelling library
loout me" he added, pointing to a pile
y tne most abstruse scientific works.
which / read with a great deal of in
crest, and yet l don't work out NV
'rooiems in the same way. But I get
great deal of satisfaction when 7 YER
" actual experiments by mathematical
ROOF and find everything as it should
e me scientific spirit is Certainly
OF lacking in the young man of 26. who
nds entertainment in reading treati-
eS on exact electrical measurements.
ar1ations of vibrations, differentiai
alculus and kindred topics.
Solved the Tuning Problem.
The most widespread cry against the
SefulneSS of wireless telegraphv has
cen based on the fact that intereep-