The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-08
MARC0NI AND INVENTIONS


which he asserts will go far toward per-
fecting wireless telegraphy, William Mar
conf, inventor of the system, arrived on
the Cunard liner Lucania from Liverpool
last week Although q detailed descrip-
ton of the inventions will be withheld
until after patents are perfected, he re-
vealed enough to say that by them the
height Of the pole will be almost cut in
half and greater regularity of transmits
sion and receiving attained. They will
reduce the cost OF the operation much
and enable stations to be more nearly
attuned.
Mr.. Marconi's reception when the Lu-
cania arrived at her pier was very en-
thusiastic. Fellow countrymen to the
number of a score or more were there
to meet him, with them a brass band of
thirty members, their caps bearing the
proud title of 1.-The Marconi Band" in
gilt letters.
There was an address, also, in Italian
and the reading of it caused the inventor
to blush his thanks. In it he was called
the night of the Latin race and other
hattering things.
Il believe l am safe in saying that a
great step forward in wireless telegrsbhy
has been taken by these latest discover
les" he said later at the Holland House
They go far toward placing the system
on the practical basis. toward which we
are always striving. BY them the cost of
transmission and operation has been very
greatly reduced. We will no longer need
the high poles now in use and the regu-
larity and steadiness of the messages
have been greatly improved.
ION ,4e Lucania this time I put these
improvements to severe tests and the re-
suit was most fattering. Never before
has ship been in such conditions COM
munication with land while crossing the
ocean. 1t was as if we were a few
miles from shore all the time
Private messages were constantly sent
both ways by the passengers and could
even transact business with the London
once as If 1 were there. SO easy was this
that when an invitation TO dinner came
to my London office for me 1 telegraphed
my regrets from midocean."
Mr. Marconi will visit Thomas A Edi-
son at EVELYN park. and the two cleo
tricians will go carefully over his latest
inventions Mr.. Edisons interest is
most gratifying to me- said Mr.. Marconi.
His wonderful knowledge will be great
aid to me and to the company, of which
he is one of the technical engineers
1 CONSIDER II a great honor TO meet him.
Speaking of the wireless mix up during
one o. the yacht races the inventor
laughed. What was done there" he
said can be done in a way TO any wire
telephone or telegraph wire. The mes
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ming a ship with a powerful battery
aboard the currents could he DETECTED.
While they could not get our tune, yet
by running up and down the electrical
scale so to speak they could strike it at
times.
Contrary 20 the popular opinion. this
does not weaken the value Of the system
in warfare. In order TO mix up messages
a war ship must lay almost alongside the
transmitting ship. They must be abreast
and close together. While the enemy was
doing this the transmitting ship certainly
could hold an argument with her guns
Mr. Marconi Will remain on this side
four weeks. He Will visit the Cape Bre-
ton station, also the one al Cape Cod.
and return 10 England on the next trip
but one of the Lucania.-New York Her
aid
The Daily Express had a comical ac-
count the other day of the adventures Of
s battery of artillery. who were exercis-
ing in the neighborhOod Of Salisbury
I lain. The gallant officer in command,
evidently bent on playing the game thor
oughly. ordered his battery into a field
OF standing corn. whereupon the irate
farmer appeared on the scene and ordered
them OF. The c. o. directed his men 10
arrest the farmer. who promptly seized
a pitchfork and defied them. There being
nothing about pitchforks in the books.
the gunners were hopelessly bewildered
by these tactics. and the farmer. seeing
his advantage, fell upon them and. lit
orally. drove them out Of the field. Fol
lowing this up. he charged the command
ing officer who. after hesitatins for a
moment ANONYMOUSLY turned and fed.