The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
Electric Signals Received at st. Johns
Newfoundland, from a Station at
Cornwall, England.
CARRIED ABOUT 1,7O0 MILES
SIGNALS REPEATED Sp OFTEN
THERE COULD BE NO MISTAKE.
Letter "S'' of Marconi's Code Used by
the Operator Stationed at the
English Seaport.

ST. JOHNS n. F, Dec. 14.-Signor Mar
conf announced the most wonderful scien-
tific discovery of modern times tonight in
stating that he had received electric sig
nails across the Atlantic ocean from his
station in Cornwall, England. He explains
that before leaving England he made plans
for accomplishing this result, for while his
primary object to communicate with
ocean liners in midocean, he hoped also to
succeed in attaining the wonderful scien-
tific achievement of wireless telegraphy
across the Atlantic.
Signor Marconi's station in Cornwall is
most powerful. He possesses an electric
force generated there a hundred times
greater than at his ordinary stations. Be
fore he left England he arranged that the
electrician in charge of the station, which
is located at Poldhu, should begin sending
signals daily after certain date, which the
signor would cable him after having per-
fected his arrangements here. SiSnor Mar
conf arrived here week ago Friday, Sc
lected 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 p. m. daily and TO con-
tinue them until p. m, these hours being
respectively 1870 a. m. TO 2:90 p. m, st.
Johns time. During these hours Wednes-
day Signor Marconi elevated a kite with
an aerial wire by means of which signals
are sent and received. He remained at the
recorder attached TO the receiving ap-
paratus, and to his profound satisfaction
signals were received by him at intervals
according to the programme arranged pre-
viously with the operator at Poldhu. These
signals consisted OF repeating at intervals
the letter IS, which in Marconi's code is
made by three dots quick strokes. This
signal was repeated so frequently and so
in accordance with the detailed plan ar
ranged to provide safeguards against pos
sibility of mistake that Marconi was salts
fed that IT was a genuine transmission
from England.
THE SECOND TEST.
Again on Thursday, during the same
hours the kite was elevated, the same sig
nails were renewed. This made the assur-
ance so complete that Signor Marconi ca
bIed 10 his principals in England and also
informed the Governor Of Newfoundland
Sir Cavendish Boyle, who apprised the
British 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 in establishing
communication across the Atlantic without
the use of wires, emphasizes the fact that
the system is yet only in an embryonic
stage and that the possibility of its ulti-
mate development is demonstrated by the
experiments with incomplete and imperfect
apparatus, the signals can only be re-
ceived by the most sensitively adjusted ap-
arstus, and Signor Marconi is working
under great difficulties owing to the condi-
tions prevailing here. The Cornwall coast
is 100 miles from ST Johns.
In view of the success attending these