The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-05-03

l&4nl less difficult to write OF Its intro
auetiGn into the w TSs1e as are
stages in the history of any great COM
mercial factor that is either invented or
discovered-one, the period when the in
ventor or discoVerer labOrs patiently
against disappointments. battling with
hope and despair in his laboratory: and
the other. when he steps into the world
to show and prove the utility of his in
vention. Il will confine myself to the
latter stage. to the introduction of wire
less telegraphy. -
I may truly say the introduction took
place -on June 3, 1898, when Lord Kelvin
sent messages from my laboratory on
the Isle OF Wight to the mainland at the
rate of a shilling message. 1t was
memorable day. Lord Kelvin and Lord
Tennyson visited me at my Alum. Bay
station, where I explained the working
Of my apparatus for sending messages by
etheric wave telegraphN. They were de-
lighted. Lord Kelvin insisted upon, dis
patching messages to friends, and upon
paying fee. He desired to demonstrate
the Immediate availability of my inven-
ton to commercial uses. The messages
were sent to Bournemouth to DR.. Mac
Lean, Lord Kelvin's chief assistant in
the physical laboratory of the University
of Glasgow, to Sir George Stokes at
Cambridge, to Lord Rayleigh and to Sir
William Preece in London. Lord Kelvin
has given his permission to reprint once
of the messages, that to Sir George
Stokes:
Stokes, Lensield Cottage, Cambridge:
This Is sent commercially paid at Alum
Bay for transmission through ether, Is.
to BournemOuth, and thence by postal
telegraph, 15d, to neutrality-suspicious."
Lord Tennyson's message was to his
nephew at, Elton, and was as follows:
Sending you message by Marconi's
ether telegraph, Alum Bay to Bourne
mouth, paid commercially thence bv
wire: very sorry not to hear you speak
your Thackeray ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The first opportunity l really had to
prove to the public that my new system
must and should be adopted by reason
of its practical serviceability was afford
ed by the Dublin Express in having me
report the. Kingstown regatta, One of
my assistants fitted up land station at
kngstown and another set up instrn-
ments on board the steamer FLYING
Huntress- During the progress of the
race the Flying Huntress followed the
course of the yachts, and wireless mes
sages were sent shoreward every ten or
fifteen minutes. Several hundred buIle-
tins We're dispatched, and not a single
message had to be repeated
Inc land station was in a room at the
rear OF the residence of the harborma ster
20 the top of a mast forty feet in height
on which was suspended a wire netting
arrangement corresponding to that at
tached to the mast of the steamer While
the tug was running down to the Kish
llghtship the final preparations were made
Tor receiving and transmitting messages.
The test for finding whether the instru-
merits are sensltave enough is very
simple one. The operator takes an ordi
nary electric bell. which he holds at some
Instance from the Morse Indicator. III He
sefias out from the battery Of the bell ~
very tiny current. which is instantly re-
sponoeu TO by click, or by the sound OF
the DELL on the indicator. This is of itself
very simple exhibition of wireless tele-
grapny.
AZ length all was in readiness. and the
niist message was received from the tug.
Inc tape merged with the familiar dot.
ana dashes beautifully printed, ready to
De translated for the reporter AS fast 4.
'iie messages arrived they were teIs-
phoned to the office of the newspaper on
Cork Hill. The operations were carried
out with precision and in a perfectly mat
ter-of-fact manner
Inc race reports were entirely Salts
factory IN every respect. a large number
Oh the bulletins being sent, Sc that the
race news was issued by the Express"
much earlier than it could have been in
any other way. The Flying Huntress was
made no difference in the legibility at
messages. The distances crossed We're
small-from five to ten miles.
The prince of Wales about this time
was confined to the royal yacht Osborne
In CoWes bay, by an injury to his knee.
me Lord Lieutenant of Ireland asked me
II could establish Geographic service
installation was at once made and the
prince sent this dispatch to the queen:
nrin0p +,I
the queen, and hopes she is none the
worse for being on board yesterday
During the sixteen days I was On the
yacht, I sent one hundred and fifty mes
sages. Great interest was taken in my
work by all the distinguished company
and particularly by the, prince Among
those present were the duke of York, the
Princess Louise, and Lord Rothschild
These messages were sent while the yacht
was going at a high rate Of speed. anC
attracted the attention of the press ant
Of scientific journals.
Four years after my first experiments tr
Italy. and after my apparatus lad been IL.
successful use for nearly Two years,
established on Christmas eve, 1898, com.
munication between the East Goodwin
Lightship, twelve miles off the coast, will
the South Foreland Lightship. The ap.
paratus had not long been installed be.
lore its value was shown most conclusive.
ly by the saving of the lightship herself
She was run down at o'clock in tn,
morning of March 3, 1899, by the steamer
r. P. Mathews, outward bound from Lon.
don. The wireless telegraphy operator
hurriedly called up South Foreland light.
house and said that the lightsnip had teer
run into and was leaking. Lifeboats were
sent out at once and the lishtshi3 wa.
saved. Since then several other ships.
have gone upon the sands and assistance
hv -ofx relo
telegraphy, the operators telegraphina
ashore in each case. The success of the
installations between the East Goodwin
lightship and the South Foreland light.
house awakened great interest and the
public began to see the pract1caI uses Il,
which the system might be put.
In 1909 the New York Herald gave nj,
an opportunity to demonstrate my ap
paratus In America, by arranging wit:
me to report the international yacht rae.
between Columbia and Shamrock. Tho
suspended wires were about one hundred
and fifty feet high in all cases, and tn.
distances to which the messages wer.
sent varied firm five to twenty miles. The
instruments were located in the char.
rooms OF the ships, and messages were
sent at Intervals of not more than fffteer
minutes. In. every case, in spite of storm
or fog, the messages I sent were accurate
and much in advance Of all other means
of transmitting the news
Having demonstrated to the world thu
servicea bilfty of my system for CONNER.
clai use, the governments Of Great Bri.
tain and the United States began very.
rigid examinations and subjected wire.
less telegraphy to tests The results are
well known. The British government
adopted my system for the South African
war and for the fleet: and the United
States navy commission recommends that
the system be given a trial by the navy
The tests of the United States govern
ment were most interesting. installation