The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-07
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Herbert Wallace in Success
By the tire he vas 10 Gusl;emo MaTcon had modelled
various which undoubted evidences ct ms
latent genius They showed insight into mechanical
problems lar beyond his years and we're OF suneen prom
ise he worthy Of the encouragement Of his friends II
until he was 70 however that his great life began
directing energies toward the problems OF wireless teg
Taphy At that he became interested n the work Of
Prof Heinrich Hertz. German scientist WHO IN atenp'
ing discover the Of electricity accidentally pro
duced electric electromagnetic waves and detected their
presence the ether By means OF wire hoop 50 broken
that the electricity spanked the gap No not
Hertz himself realized the tremendous importance OF his
discovery Men like Prof Lodge Lord Kelvin Sir William
Preece Popof and Others prominent electrical science
talked about ertzs work and Of them reproduced his
experiments but remained for this young Italian dreamer
jump the sap years Of scientific study and make
practical the most important discovery since Fraday invent
ed the induction When remembers that the Undue
ton coil made possible the dynamo electric lights the tee
graph and tire telephone 'he significance Of the comparison
apparent Hertzs discovery the beginning OF wire
less tecgrsphy 10 knows that better than Marconi
himself He does wish the credit Of originality in this
matter but he deserves all tts credit and praise the world
can hesioN upon who has made theory practical by
ecnquering unexpected difficulties by unremtting perse-
yera-ce.
Aareoni read the work Of Hertz early in 1894 when h.
was barely 20 Of How the thought came 10 him
mlnlcauon over great distances no one VIII kno" Look
back H. in the light of what he has done the thought
spark IN broken hoop few feet away IRON the fash OF
induction coil Why didn't ne get better detector than
broken hoop and better ransmitter than small Undue
sion coil and send out the flashes slch manner that the
ds,fctor would record message. Why. indeed, Perhaps
Hertz had lived he m,E1. thought the possib
tres Of his discovery bu. a the few months Of his life
Vh-E followed his experiment., the important
thought did hl,r. Herein lies
the cisrctonthat small differentiation which is s-im-
ports-t--between great ard genius The former
by long struggle almost the height; the latter leaps
20 A. by the aid OF the spark divine superhuman which
his brain possesses Why didn't Pref Lodge, Lord ke
WIN or Sir William Preele or o; hundred OF the
other great scientists CT the think Of utilizing He-tzs
discovery NarcoDi himself when the though; occurred
him believed that the idea have would
come to OF these tt hn they u1namable he
not acquainted with the scientists He electrician
hiuse: He held academic scientific degree which
testified his having satisfactorily completed any college
course. i seemed prssurr..cr Try.
lie waited almost all the turning the
over IN his madsi the time watching Tor the announce
re1 ri system ct wireless biography by Hertzsn
but none came The young became impatient and
because OF TIE geniu burning within him from outward
expression perhaps than that he nigh; outstrp others be
began 90 experiment. This n December, 1894