The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-29

The practicability of the system had been advanced until it was possible to transmit wireless messages thirty miles last summer during the international yacht race and 200 miles in England on the first day of the reign of King Edward III. But here comes a man who goes from 200 miles to 900 miles; who leaps the ocean in one single scientific bound, who makes the. opce-wopderful cable ap+ pear an unnecessary, burdensomel loom ed thing: who strips the sea storm of its terror for teleKraphy. and who brings continents into conversational relation ship as close as that of. sitting at the same table, t,t 2, .t s.
 Whatever doubt attached to the young Italian scientists achievement was re- moved on the second day after the mes sage from England was received Mar conf announced the news over his own name This was convincing to the most skeptical. for Marconi has never been doubted. He has been tao modest in achievement, too persistent in experiment. and too positive of his facts in all his work to be questioned once he himself says 1t is so. It has been characteristic of Marconi to confine his talk to what he has done rather than what he ex- poets to do. Yet it has been known to his intimates that no dream was ever more unrestrained than the hopes of Marconi in wireless telegraphy. The eX- tent of his fathers vineyard had no ter TOT for him when he erected his first rude poles for signal stations six years ago, and the sea had none for him after a few years, just as the 24,000-mile cir conference of the earth has none for him now. Marconi expects to conquer them all He has publicly said 90 but his faith has not been hid from his friends.
 The theory of wireless telegraphy is more than 100 years old, but it has not been until within the last ten years that any practical application Of the discoV- cry has been seriously undertaken. Sig. ho Nf a uynn
 took up the science in 1895. His father s estate in Italy embodied a large vine yard. and here he erected his first signal poles. He had all the elements of wire less telegraphy to begin with, it having
 been accepted years before that the transmission of electrical messages anl the transmission of light from the sun to the earth were identical. Marconi sought to make a practical application of this knowledge. He knew the waves of ether would carry his message if he could devise a sender and receiver of such harmonious attunment that the one
 would communicate with the other.
 His first important discovery was that the coherer. as the tube containing me tallic filings is called. becomes more sem
 sitive to the presence of ether waves If it has attached to it's end two long wires. This is the reason he has the high maSts
 at his sending and receiving stations and on the ships with which he communi- cates at sea. He also found a connection between the length of the wire and th@ distance to which the message was to he sent. With wire twenty feet long he was able to send a message mile. WitA vertical wire eighty feet long he was able to send sixteen miles. and so on.
 Sig. Mar soni and his assistants almost
 at once jumped far in advance of the | men who had found the theory. and there has not been a time in the six wears of his work when the young Ital- l ian has not been recognized as the fore most worker in his particular scienc' and the one promising the earliest and most startling results.
 Marconi nas gradually increased his
 d,stances and overcome the obstacles. On 1 the first day of the reign of King Ed ward VII the inventor accomplished thf l feat of sending a wireless telegraph, me cssage 2OO mhes. This message was 1 trsnsmitte6 between stations erected Or l St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight and l the Lizard, in Cornwall, Tn fact, Mar