Arizona republican., 1903-07-22
Latest Claims of rlarconl and TeIsa

| ,. Ht ldleSt Cltilh put iOTln DS Mar cont was altogethe timely. An inter ested public was waiting somew hat :m- | patiently for an explanation of the de- lay in making wireless telegraphy | practically useful. It had been neariy q year since MarConi had announced the completion of his final tests and had stated that within a few weeks" he would be transmitting commercial messages regularly between the United States and England. and the fear was becoming prevalent that too much had been promised and expected.
 The explanation given ou1 oy Mar conf few days ago is entirely satis- factory. if it is reliable. On beLa!f of the young Italian inventor 1t is nov stated that He has discovered a new principle in wireless telegraphy. and has perfected an instrument by means of which he no longer needs high tow | CTS for transmitting his messages across the ocean. He can now send them skipping thousands Of miles from wave to wave along the very surface of the sea. As a result. he has discard ed practically all of his old apparatus at transatlantic stations and is install | ing new and simpler machines The tall masts will disappear, or remain mere monuments of primitive methods, and messages will be sent from an in- | strument on a table not elevated at all. Ut is because of this discovery" the dispatches tell us. that stations have not been opened for public busi- ness. as 1t was expected they would be long before this date. The required changes are being made as rapidly as possible, and public service will be installed as soon as they are completed" This is, indeed, epoch marking news. if correct
 After all. it may be a race between Marconi and Tesla in making wireless | telegraphy an actual substitute for the wire system-at least. a substitute for ocean cables. A year and a half ago. the New York Sun stated editori- ally that it was authorized by Tesla to say that by September. 1902. he would be telegraphing freely across the ocean without wires and without elevated | stations. Nothing further was heard of his experiments until a few weeks | ago. when the Sun again referred to | the subject in its editorial columns, and explained on behalf of Tesla, in | substance. that the young Hungarian l ha l.zla ,,I | trial of new principles, and that with | in the present year he expected to be | transmitting wireless messages to any | point Of the earth desired. This, of course. exceeds the claims of Marconi, who does not yet assert that he has solved the problem of transmitting messages overland for long distances. Tesla goes even further. He promises that he will not only send messages through the air. but will transmit pow CT through the same medium with like facility. without wires, to any given | point.
 | It is strongly suspected nearly ev- anywhere that Tesla is overrated as | an inventor, and in support of the | doubters 1t is pointed out that his per | formances have by no means been equal to the promises made for him in the press. But as the inventor of long distance power transmission by the practical methods now in use, Tesla has earned a high place among the worlds foremost electricians, and there Is all the more reason to hope that he may prove to be the real wizard of the air. when a journal SO reliable and conservative as the New York Sun be- lieves after Investigation that 1t is pos sible for his plans to succeed.