New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
SIGNOR MARCONTS TRIUMPH.
WIRELESS MESSAGES FLASHED OVER THE OCEAN FROM
CORNWALL TO NEWFOUNDLAND.


St Johns, n. F.. Dec. 14.-Signor Marconi an
nounced tonight the most wonderful scientific
discovery of modern times. in stating that he
had received electric signals across the Atlantic
Ocean from his station in Cornwall. England
He explains that before leaving England he had
made his plans for accomplishing this result,
for. while his primary object to conununi
cate with ocean liners in mdocean. he also
hoped to succeed in attaining the wonderful
scientific achievement of wireless telegraphy
across the Atlantic.
Sgnor MarcOnPs station in Cornwall is most
powerful. He possesses an electric force gener-
ated there hundred 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 Marconi would cable him upon perfect
ing his arrangements here. Signor Marconi ar
rived here week ago Friday and selected Sig
nal HILL at the entrance to the harbor. as
experimenting station and moved his equip
ment there. Last Monday he cabled the Poldhu
station to begin sending signals at D. m.
daily. and to continue them until p M. these
hours being respectively 11:30 a. to 80
p. ma, ST. Johns time. During these hours
Wednesday Signor Marconi elevated kite with
an aerial wire, by means of which signals are
sent or received. He remained at the recorder
attached to the receiving apparatus and to
his profound satisfaction. signals were received
by him at intervals, according the programme
with bo at
hu These signals consisted of repeating at in
tervals the letter s. which. in Marconis code,
is made by three dots. quick strokes This
signal was repeated frequently, and accord
ing to the detailed plan arranged to provide
safeguards against possibility of a mistake, that
Signor Marcon was satisfied that it was
genuine transmission from England.
Again on Thursday. during the same hours,
the kite was elevated and the same signals were
renewed This made the assurance complete
that Signor Marconi cabled TO his principals in
England and also informed the Governor OF
Newfoundland, Sir Cavendish Boyle, who ap-
prised the British Cabinet of the success OF the
experiments.
signor Marconi. though satisfied Of the gem
uineness of the signals an1 that ne mas sue
ceeded in his attempts to establish communities
ton across the Atlantic without the use of
wires emphasizes the fact that the system is
yet only in an embryonic stage. but that the
possibiIity of its ultimate development is demon
strated by the success of the present expert
ments with incomplete and imperfect apparatus.
as the signals only be received by the most
sanstively adjusted apparatus and Si6nor Mar
conf is wording under great difficulties, owing TO
tie conditions prevailing here The Cornwall
coast is 700 miles from St Johns
In view CT the success attending these trials,
Sienor Marconi will for the present disregard
the matter of communicating with transatlantic
steamers He will return England next week
and will conduct the experiments from Poldhu
himself. He explains that the greater electrical
mower there will enable him TO send more et
fective signals He will undertake this work
himself. leaving assistants here to erect mast
and receive the signals as he forwards them.
1t is not possible send return signals from
here until powerful electric battery shall have
been installed
Sir Robert Bond. Premier of Newfoundland.
offers Signor Marconi every facility within the
power of the colonial government for the carry
ing out OF his plans.
Signor Marconi intends to build large. fully
equipped experimental station near St Johns.
besides the Lioyd'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 Atlantic as Poldhu does on the
other side. The St. Johns station will COM
municate with New-York one side and Corn
wall on the other. being midway between the
two This establishment will proba bly, cost
about $6O0O0. and will perform the same work
as the modern cable station.
NJ hat he will m
In England until after the coronation of King
Edward next summer, and that he hopes TO send
the news of that event across the Atlantic by the
wireless method so as to prove the capability of
the system for such purposes. He will probably
i'm the mean time equip all vessels of the leading
lines of steamers with his apparatus
Nothing more wonderful in the history of the
progress science in the story of the reduction
Of the elemental forces universe the of
mankind has ever been recorded than the graphic
announcement from Newfoundland printed above.
If true It marks long step forward-hardly safe
vet 10 call il the cuInination-in the interesting
series experiments of Signor Marcon1 IN trans
mitting and receiving messages by means OF the
eac,ric waves of the air. dispensing altogether with
wires experiments which the minds of scientists
have been fixed in recent years to 4 greater extent
than ON any other of the marvellous developments
of this electric age
C;ugielmo Marconi is hardly thirty years old,
Italian by birth and partly so by parentage- His
mother was an English woman. but his father was
A native of Italy His birthplace was Bogona. Since
1sas however he has been a resident of England and
has apparently identified himself permanently with
that country. Both his scientific and his financial
hackers live there. Marcon Is. and processes to be-
an amateur electrician. He had been about seven