Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-11-10
DEsERET EVENING NEWS. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER lc 1900

Morse register and made great im-
proyements In electro magnets. IL was
In 1887 that Morse's telegraphic instru-
ment, 80 simple and ehicacious that II
is used In a modified form today was
first exhibited, ana that same year
stelnheirs telegraph, extending y
miles, with single wire and the use Of
the earth 10 complete the circuit, traced
lines and dots on ribbons OF paper
Many great minds were engaged upon
the problem OF telegraphy when Morse
filed his cayeat for a patent in 1887, and
that very year Wheatstone ana Cooke
In England took out a patent for an
instrument Of their own.
1t Is Just co years since a patent was
granted Morse for his Geographic IN
strument ana Sc since he brought II into
practical use over the first line erected
between Washington and Baltimore
Since then has come the vast Develop
ment Of the land lines and the subma-
rlne cables-the first OF the latter by
the way. having been laid between
Governors island and the Battery, New
York, and almost Immediately carried
away on the anchor Of an intrudlng
vessel
AS with the discovery or rather, the
development. OF biography by means
Of wires and cables 80 It was with this
latest and In some respects more Won
derful science Of wireless telegraphy.
IL is a question for experts to decide
whether Faraday or Henry was the
true discoverer OF electric waves or the
propounder Of a theory respecting their
propulsion, but Clerk Maxwell, the
Scotch physicist who died so late as
1879, crystallized their theories INTO fact
by his extensive experiments and
proved that the waves or undulations
Of electricity could be transmitted
through the air IN the same manner as
light and with the same rapidly,
A German scientist named Heinrich
Hertz verified these theories and eXper-
lments carrying forward the work to
the time OF his death In 1895, and
made such progress that the undula-
lions were named, after him, "Hertzian
waves The Russian Popoff success
fully sent messages by them FIVE years
ago, in 1926 Branly and Ducretet,
Frenchmen invented receivers for reg
lstering them, so that men Of several
natlonalities are entitled to the honor
Of having established the law that gov
erns the phenomena. Suddenly there
appeared one Of another nationality, an
Italian named Right OF Bologna, who
had hardly published his account Of
some improvements he had made when
his laurels were wrested from him rs
his pupil, Guglielmo Marconi then only
q years old Il may have been by In
tuition. or from a remarkable grasp Of
the subject. but there Is no doubt that
Marconl, like the great American IN
ventors. Thomas A. Edison and Nicola
Tesla, Is a natural born genius" and
was able TO advance farther than any
OF his predecessors He availed hlm-
self Of all the inventions and discover
les that had been made before and has
been declared a 'practician,' rather
than an inventor But, whatever his
peculiar gift, whether as an originator
or adapter OF other mems inventions 1t
was through him that wireless telegra-
ply received It's greatest impetus.
No one man can claim the glory OF
achieving this great discovery, and It
might seem unjust to grant one a pat
emit. and refuse It TO another In fact
the validity Of Marconrs patents has
been questioned IN some particulars
the French, for instance, advancing the
claim for precedence In the practical
use OF electric waves for transmission
OF messages and especially for NJ
Branly's invention OF that most essen
tial feature OF the receiving instru-
ment. the "coherer' Indeed. the his
tory Of all past discoveries Of like mag
nitude teaches us that the individual
Is nothlng--the cumulative impulse OF
the century or the cycle is everything
For a few years, say for the duration
OF patent one man or company may
control the invention and receive hs
usufruct but In the end the world will
be the beneficiary.
However, It was Sgnor Marconl, a
Florentlne by birth. but whose mother
was an English woman, who gathered
all the threads OF the various inyen-
lions together and placed them before
wrecked. entailing a loss Of 300 lives