The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-09-26

ton for til. Advancement of Science,
on wireless trlcgraphy. and. in send
ing gree tinga ~ the MarConi system
10 the Ereaam Association across the
Channel. discovered that some of the
messages exchanged were detected if-
ty miles beyond their destination.
Messages sent from Boulogne 10 Dow
er were read in the stations at Chelms-
ford, away across the hills of Kent and
beyond the smoke and fog Of London
town. The achievement was rcmarka-
BILE. even though the public refused to
be surprised Probably nothing short
Of wireless messages half way round
the world would excite unusual Inter
est now. and doubtless many are won
dering whether anything more will
come of wireless telegraphy than has
already been accomplished
But Marconi has not been contented
to stop at the attainment Of a hundred
mneg There were and are still too
many problems unsolyed for him to rest
from his labors. To prevent the inter
eeptiCn -: dispatches. and the Jam
ming" of the instruments. to attain lon-
ger distances, to master the secret Of
tuned" ether waves. and to apply the
system practically t. shipping so as To
increase the safety Of vessels at sea
these are a few Of the things he has set
out to do. Already the little strip OF
coast near Poole Harhor has witnessed
some of these solutions.
The writer had the pleasure OF spend
ing several weeks recently with Mar
conf at the Poole station. and Of watch
ing the work from day TO day. Each
morning began with a wireless con-
a. ~ t...,
when orders were given to the man
there to stand by" later In the day
and meantime 10 look out for any unus-
ual "etherar occurrences. The Eng
lish navy was experimenting with wire
less telegraphy at Portsmouth. forty
miles beyond. ard the Isle of Wight in
stallation kept up lively action while
these experiments were going on.
DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME.
The most widespread cry against the
usefulness Of wireless biography has
been based on the fact that intercept
ton Of dispatches vas for long time
possible II may not have occurred
to the objectorS hat the same fault
may be found with the wire system Of
signalling. But by means OF variable
conductors and capacities. Marconi has
worked out system by which only Ger
tain instruments can receive certain
messages.
A hundred wireless Instruments tap
ping out hundred different messages
or recording hundred different dis
patches from as many different places
ranging In distance up to let us say
100 miles would be most marvellous, yet
Marconi Is now able TO do that and
much more. He has taken up the old
problem of tuning" messages and
worked II cut practically.
MaTconi sometimes works days with
out apparent result, but ne is never
discouraged.
Il am about as well satisfied said
he one day. when / fail In an expert
ment as when / succeed because If
~ a thing faithfully once and 1t does
work can dismiss that possibility
| have tried a great many things
fail | get the thing that succeeds
don't have 10 repeat experiments
IRE trials"
he evening Marconi reviews the
he has done during the day and
l.a.s the experiments sor the next A
days work is a valuable thing to him
because he has the feeling that to-mor-
row MAJ bring some great development