Passaic City record., 1901-12-21
MARCON|'S ACHIEVEMENT
Wireless Messages Sent From Eng
land Received at Newfoundland.
100 MILES ACROSS ATLANTIC

The Most Wonderful Development of the
Electric Age-Prearranged Letter Re-
peatcd at Intervals in the Marconi Code
Inventor to Continue the Trans-At-
lantic Experiments in England
st. Johns, N. F.-Signor Marconi has
announced the most wonderful scien'
tific discovery of modern times, IN stat.
ing that he had received electric sig.
nails across the Atlantic Ocean fror,
his station in Cornwall, England. He
explains that before leaving England
he had made his plans for accomplish
ing this result, for, while his primary
object was to communicate with ocean
liners in midocean, he also hoped to
succeed in attaining the wonderful
scientific achievement of wireless telc-
graphy across the Atlantic.
Signor Marconi's station in Cornwall
is most powerful. He possesses an
electric force generated there hun
dred times greater than at his ordinary
stations. Before he left England he
arranged with the electrician In charge
of the station, which Is located at
Poldhu, to begin sending signals daily
after certain date, which Signor Mar
conf would cable him upon perfecting
his arrangements here. Signor Mar
conf arrived here week ago Friday,
and selected Signal Hill, at the entrance
of the harbor. as an experimenting
station, and moved his equipment
there. On Monday he cabled to the
Poldhu station to begin sending signals
at 3 D. m. daily, and to continue them
until D. m, these hours being respec-
lively 11.3O to go p. M, st. Johns
time.
During these hours Wednesday Sig
nor Marconi elevated kite with an
aerial wire, by means of which sig
nails are sent or received. He re-
mained at the recorder attached to the
receiving apparatus, and, to his pro
found satisfaction. signals were re-
ceived by him at intervals, according
to the program arranged previously
with the operator at Poldhu. These
signals consisted of repeating at inter
walls the letter ''S," which, in Marco
mis- code, is made by three dots, or
quick strokes. This signal was re-
peated so frequently, and according
to the detailed plan arranged to pro-
vide safeguards against possibility Of
a mistake, that Signor Marconi was
satisfied that it was a genuine trans
mission from England.
Again on Thursday, during the same
hours, the kite was elevated and the
same signals were renewed. This
made the assurance so complete that
Signor Marconi cabled to his princi-
pals in England and also informed the
Governor of Newfoundland. Sir Cav
endish Boyle, who apprised the Brit
ish Cabinet of the success Of the eX-
periments.
Signor Marconi. though satisfied of
the genuineness of the signals and that
he has succeeded in his attempts to
establish communication across the
Atlantic without the use Of wires en-
phasizes the fact that the system is
yet only in an embryonic stage, but
that the possibility of its ultimate de-
velopment Is demonstrated by the sue
cess of the present experiments with
incomplete and imperfect apparatus,
as the signals can only be received by
the most sensitively adjusted appara-
tus. and Signor Marconi is working
under great difficulties owing to the
conditions prevailing here. The Corn
wall coast is 100 miles from ST.
Johns.
In view of the success attending
these trials, Signor Marconi will for
the present disregard the matter of
communicating with transatlantic
steamers. He will return to England
Immediately and will conduct the ex-
periments from Poldhu himself. He
will undertake this work himself,
leaving assistants here to erect a
mast and receive the signals as he for
wards them. 1t is not possible to re-
turn signals from here until powerful
electric battery shall have been in
stalled.
Signor Marconi intends to build a
large, fully equipped experimental
station near st. Johns, besides the
Lloyd's station at Cape Race. The
former will have the same equipment
as the Poldhu station. and will play
the same part on this side of the Allan
tic as Poldhu does on the other. The
ST. Johns station will communicate
with New York City on one side and
Cornwall on the other, being midway
between the two. This establishment
will probably cost about $4,000. and
will perform the same work as the
modern cable station.