The Nome nugget., 1902-03-22
PROGRESS or WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

The wireless telegraph and the air ship are des- tined to play important part in the worlds future history. That both, are feasible has been already demonstrated in a small way that both will be per- scted and will beceme immense factors in the worlds progress seems to be foregone conclusion. And this is especially true of wireless telegraph Experi- nents made this winter in Newfoundland by the in ventor Sgnor Marconi seem to indicate that by the close of the present year the system will be far perfected that it will be applied to practical use.
 We of the fact that considerable number of people, including electrical experts and authorities on electricity, among them Thomas A. Edison, do not take kindly to Marconi's discov cry. This to be expected however. There is jealousy and doubt among all men, including great inventors It seems reasonable, however to suppose that such discovery that of Malconi-it cannot be called inventon-is in itself sufficient to upset she preconceived ideas of most scientists great and small. People, common, ordinary everyday people, dc not take kindly to innovations. Most are "set in their ways;" their habits of thought be- come fixed along certain lines. and it jars them to be- compelled to abandon theories and principles which they have long held to be true
 Ii is noticeable however, that the great corpora lions who control telegraphc franchises manifest ing great deal of uneasness over the progress of Marcosi's discovery They already setting up the claim that they only have the right to receive and transmit news the Atlantic, and in this way they are endeavoring to handicap wireless teegraphy and prevent it's adoption as long as they can. Perhaps they will be able to do so for some time, but in the end Marconi, his system at least will triumph These are the days of utitariansm, and ho power earth long deprive all the peo- pie ofhe benefits of any discovery that has for its object the improvement of existing conditions.
 It is strange how mankind. clings to old trad- tions, old.methods, old paths There is sentiment in this, but modern ways are conoclastic; image break ing is mere pasme, and if our beloved traditions stand in the way the rush hurry of ''modern ex- istence" will surely brush them away. Progress is revolutionary. and revolution means change We fast learning to adapt ourselves to kaledoscopic changes, and this faculty is the product of the last century. There is an old Latin proverb to the effect that "times change and change with them" but changes among the ancients long time in materializng, generally speaking, and the reverend sages of centuries long past would doubt view "modern civilization" as exemplifcation of lunaey unparalleled. And perhaps they would be right
 We are told that "the Lord made man upright but he has wrought out many inventions" He has, but to his credit it may be stated that in the main mans inventions have been always along. the lines of human progress, anu nave been 6uch as were Denef- cent Marconi's discovery is one of these We have said it is not an invention, but the discovery of principle which has long been known to exist, and which has been applied for years, but along different lines than those which Marconi has utilized. In very few years ws-nay expect to have the principle of wireless telegraphy almost exclusively in use. It nsans much for+hs progress of the world, progress se fsrrsaching in its greatness and importance to mankind that it is-d;ffcult to grasp its fu!k sig ni6cance.
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