The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15
ACROSS The WATERS
MARCONI RECEIVES SIGNALS BY
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
SCIENCES LATEST WONDER.
ONLY ONE LETTER THIS TINE BUT
WHAT NEXT.

From His Powerful Station in Corn
wall Spark Is Generated to
Which the Inventors Kite at St.
Johns, N. F., RespOnds-The Let
cOrdfng to Prearranged Plan
on Two Successive Days-The Sys-
tenn at Present Only in an EN-
bryO Stage Says Signor MarcOni.
st. Johns, N. F., Dec. 14.-Signor
Marconi announced the most wonderful
scientific achievement of modern times
tonight, in stating that he had receiv-
ed electric signals across the Atlantic
ocean from his station in Cornwall,
England. He explains that before leav-
plishing this result, foI' while his pri-
mary object was to communicate with
ocean lines in mid-ocean he hoped also
to succeed in attaining the wonderful
scientific achievement of wireless teleg-
raphy across the Atlantic.
Signor Marconi's station in Cornwall
is most powerful. He possessed an cleo
tric force generated there, a hundred
times greater than at his ordinary sta
tions. Before he left England he ar
ranged that the electrician in charge
of the station, which is located at
Poldhu, should begin sending signals
daily after a certain date, which Sig
nor Marconi would cable him after
having perfected his arrangements
here. Signor Marconi arrived here a
week ago Friday, selected Signal Hill,
at the entrance to the harbor, as an
experimenting station, and moved his
equipment there. Last Monday he
cabled to the Poldhu station to begin
sending signals at 8 p. m. daily and to
continue them until p. M, these hours
being respectively, 1880 a. m. to 2:S0
p. M, St. Johns time. During these
hours Wednesday Signor Marconi ele-
waited the kite with an aerial wire by
means OF which signals are sent or
received. He remained at the re-
corder attached to the receiving appa-
ratus, and to his profound satisfac-
ton were received by him at intervals,
according to the programme arranged
previously with the operator at Poldhu.
These signals consisted OF repeating at
intervals the letter IS which in Mar
coni's code is made by three dots, or
cuick strokes. This signal was re-
peated so frequently and so in accord
ance with the plan, arranged to pro-
vide safeguards against possibility of
mistake, that Sigpor Marconi was
satisfied that 1t was 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, who ap-
prised the British cabinet of the sue
cess of the experiments.
Signor Marconi, though satisfied of
the genuineness of the signals, and
that he has succeeded in his attempts
in establishing communication across
the Atlantic without the use of wires,
emphasized the fact that the system is
as yet only in an embryo stage, and
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 un-
der great difficulties, owing to the con-
ditions prevailing here.
The Cornwall station is 1,700 miles
from St. Johns.