The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-04-11

FOR MARcoNrs MARVELLOUS lNVEN-
TON TO BE m OPERATION


Garrett p. serylss. the writer on
scientific subjects. had an interview
with Mr. Marconi. and made doubly
clear tho conviction that he was not
deceived about those signals trans
mitted from England to Newiound.
land
$50 there Is no question about the
result Of the Newfoundland expert
msnts?" None"
And we may expect to see your sys-
tenn OF transatlantic signalling in com
mercial operation soon?' Il hope so.
am going to England to arrange for
Il as soon as / can get away"
Can you say how long a time will
elapse before actual messages may be
transmitted across the ocean," mo,
not exactly. But probably it viii not
be long. It may take three or four
months to make the preliminary ar
rangements."
Where will your stations be
placed?" I'm Nova Scotia and at Cape
Cod. on this side; in England and
probably in Belgium. on the other
side"
How about transmitting such mes
sages from and to points at distance
from the seacoast; do you think that
can be done?" Il think so, but more
experiments must first be tried. We
90 not yet know all the data Of the
/ problem. But ! think eventually 1t
can be done"
You mean that when the system
is perfected a message might be sent
for instance, from st. Petersburg or
some point in the heart of Europe di-
rect through the air to New York
without being interrupted and with
out the use of any relays" yes,
think it possible that that may be
done"
How about the transcontinental
business? Do you intend to try to send
messages, say, from New York to San
Francisco" "Oh. I cannot say yet as
to that. We have not yet gone far
enough with our experiments. But I
think it might be done; I do not see
any impossibility in it"
so you think you could send
wireless message from the Atlantic to
the Pacific?" Yes. but it would re-
duire more power than over the ocean
just how much more l am not pre-
pared to say"
There is no difficulty then as to
obtaining the requisite energy to send
messages across the widest oceans, or
even all around the earth?" NO. the
range Of energy needed is within easy
practical reach. 1t took, think, about
100 times as much energy to signal
across the Atlantic as it takes to run
single arc light"
When your signals were sent
across the Atlantic, did they go in
the air or through the earth or how?"
They went through the ether"
''The ether is supposed to interpene-
trate all substances as Well as to fill
all space But, practically are there
not resistances, etc, which would
make the waves choose some particu-
lar path in preference to others?''
Eyes, and think the waves followed
the curvature of the earth"
In regard to the very important
question of making the messages ex-
elusive, so that anybody might not
pick them up and read them in their
fight, what is to be said?" "They can
be made perfectly exclusive" he re
Piled by having the transmitters and
receivers tuned in unison Then only
the properly tuned receiver can take
the messages and all other receivers
would get nothing"
! How great a range is there at your
!, disposal in tuning the Instruments
Can you make as great variety oil
tuned transmitters and receivers re
spending only to one and another as
a manufacturer of Yale locks car
make of locks that will open only tc
/ their proper keys?" "Well, l cannot
yet say how great the range is, but i
would seem to be very great, because
we have millions of vibrations tt
choose from, and even if it were nee
essary to have one thousand vibra
2 tons covering the field of each set O.
/ instruments, yet with millions 10 Sc
/ lect from, thousands of such sets, eaci
: Independent Of all the others, coulc
' be made. Suppose for instance, WI
had ten million vibrations available
o and we allotted them in sets of ont
s thousand to different Instruments
then we could make ten thousand in
D dependent sets of instruments"
} win you abandon the use Of kite
in your later experimental" Eyes, w
Y shall use masts."
), How high will the masts have t
e he in sending messages between Cap