The sun., 1902-03-02
CORNWALL TALKS TO MID.SEA.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
LESS WORK IN 3 MONTHS.

We Could Send Around 6e Earth, Says
Marceui After Getting. on His Ship.
Message From the Land ISIS
Miles Away Tuning Of War Messages.
william Marconi, armed with unmis-
taxable evidence Of what he considers the
greatest feat yet achieved In the field Of
wireless telegraphy arrived here yester-
day on the American Line steamship Phila-
delphia, on which. in mid-ocean, he had
received an actual wireless message ,5Si.5
statute miles from his sending station at
Poldhu, Cornwall. and on which the signal
letter S. made famous by his experiments
at Newfoundland, was received at distance
Of 7,0ee miles from the sender. Mr.. Mar
coni announces, moreover. that he will
have stations on Cape Cod and in Nova
Scotia In a short time and that they will
be ready in three months for the trans
mission Of transatlantic commercial mes
ages.
reporters who met him at the pier asked
him what he had done was:
we broke all records this time
He went to the Hoffman House with his
companions Of the voyage, A. S. Saunders.
a director Of the Marconi Wireless Tele-
graph Company; I. N. Vivian, the inven-
tors engineer; j. b. Taylor, his assistant
engineer: his two operators. Stacey and
Franklin, and his private secretary. Wilfred
Blayde At tho hotel he and his compan-
ions produced documentary evidence around
which they wove the account Of the achieve
ment.
No messages were sent from the Phila-
dephia 10 Poldhu. That was by a pre-
concerted arrangement. But there were
several messages received from Poldhu.
The first, as given out by Mr.. Marconi.
was taken by the receiving apparatus ON
the Philadelphia on Feb. %, one day after
the ship left Cherbourg, when the liner
was $50 miles from Poldhu. 1t was:
Still southwest breeze: fairly heavy swell
The second was received at a distance Of
500 miles from the station at midnight Of
the same day and was:
All in order. Sign Do you understand
tCode.)
The third, received Feb "a. at a distance
OF .os2 miles. was
Fine here. Thanks for message
The word message, it was explained.
referred TO nothing in particular. The fourth
message was received at a distance Of 1893 s
miles on Feb. IS, and was:
May every blessing attend you and your
party.
The fifth, which was the last message
strictly speaking, that was received was
sent when the Philadelphia was .55i.5
miles away from Poldhu. on Feb. 25 IL
was the same as the second message:
All In order Sign. DO you under standp
The signal "S- was caught twice by the
receiver when the ship was 600 miles away.
The messages were recorded not only
on the receiver. but were reproduced on
telegraph 'ticker- tape.
The receiving of the messages in the
little island house on the main deck was
watched not only by the Marconi party
but by the Captain ard chief officer OF the
Philadelphia. who attached this statement
10 the fifth message:
2Sth February. 1902 -Received on s s.
Philadelphia, latitude ISIS y, long Ss.5 west
from Podhu CornwalD over a distance Of
i.iSi.5 tff,een hundred and ffty-one and a
h1lf statute miles
A. MILLS. Captain.
e. MARsDEN, Chief OfIlcer.
apt. Mills not only watched the receiving
the message Gs a disinterested spectator
NJt Hiao certified to them all and prepared
special chart on which he marked with
I'n pricks the points on the trip at which
al five messages and the signals were
recorded on hoard his ship.
Mr.. Marconi has the reputation Of being
d a phlegmatic nature and not addicted
10 any undue excitement Still, as he
told Of his success his clear eyes snapped
every once in a while as a sign of his elation.
II was with the greatest confidence that he
assured his listeners that in three months
he would be- competing with the cable
companies in sending commercial MESA ges
acrcss the Atlantic.
There is nothing so very wonderful
in what we have done" he began THE
results merely confirm what we have done
before at Newfoundland But / don't
think there will be any doubt now as 10
our ability ultimately 10 send messages
across the Atlantic / am convinced from
our new experience on this voyage that the
distance from which wireless message
can be sent is limited only by the power
Of the sending machine.
Our achievement was confidently ex-
pected. I may say. We prepared the neces-
sary apparatus for the work and then we
N"'t'y "t'N aiNdu II. was IN
the same position as any other electrical
engineer. II you have an engineer who
keeping fifty lights burning and YOU
want him to keep 100 lights going. you
would give him the necessaryplant, wouldn't
your Well. that is what did. The power
OF our station in Cornwall was increased.
We did not send any messages ashore
rom the Philadelphia. This was by an
arrangement agreed upon beforehand.
We had 10 decline TO send a number OF
private messages that were offered TO us
for transmission.
! feel that we have proved beyond a
doubt that the curvature OF the earth does
not AFFECT the ether waves. The cable
companies with a smilel hoped it would,
you know
Then queried a reporter. you could
put receiving station and a sending sta
ton back TO hack, 30 to speak. and send a
message from the second to the first clear
around the earthi-
oh. yes, said Mr.. Marc oni. Beyond a
doubt that could be done with sufficient
power. But. of course. 1t wouldn't serve