The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-01

Famous Men Have 10 Say About It-c. Ford seeiey Local Agent.
 A prominent English paper recently l printed long article in reference to the Marconi wireless telegraph. The fol-
 lowing is an extract from the article:
 Plans for the operation of the Mar coni wireless telegraph system are ma
 turing upon so broad and comprehen- sive a basis that no phrase so aptly de- scribes them, as world embracing"
 The globe to-day is enmeshed by Gigantic network of wires whose az |gregate weight would be sufficient to sink all the battleships of the British empire, and whose total cost would bay England's national debt and leave substantial balance. This enormous investment, in the main, is of private capital, and the interest charge it in- wolves upon the commerce of the world amounts to more annually than the losses by shipwreck, fire and disaster.
 To say that the new Pacific cable cost s25.OOOOOO conveys no adequate conception of the fact, but to say that this link joining the oldest and the newest countries of the earth would .exhaust the entire gold production of 1.-the Dominion of Canada for last year, makes more lasting impression. The capital thus invested may be saved to other industrial enterprises when the plans of the Marconi com Ipaines have reached their full develop ment, for wires will no longer be nec- l K . .effected will tend to make the use of | the telegraph as common as the use of 1.-the postoffice and at charge but little greater than that of the mail.
 Thomas A. Edison, who is associated = with Marconi in the technical develop ment of the Mareoni system, has point {ed out that whereas the capacity of wire telegraphy is limited by the size lof the wire employed, there is no limit Ito the capacity of the medium em- Iployed for transmission of Marconi- grams.
 N The possibilities opened up by this assertion are apparent. Where now lquadruplex transmission is deemed to be the acme of perfection in wire teleg- lraphy. multiplex transmission without tWtTGS anu MltlOul l1ltlll IS tli6 lllCNll- liable result to be expected. And when thousands of words the minute can be speeded through the air from Montreal to London, who will hesitate on ae- count of a few extra cents of cost to use wireless telegraph instead of the post.
 In that day mechanical transmitters automatically operated by perforated tapes will be employed according to the inventions Of MT. Edison, and every business man will have beside the typewriter in his office a machine for preparing these tapes.
 In the future, instead of dictating telegram to a stenographer, who in turn prepares printed copy for the telegraph operator which all who may read will know the contents of, the up- to-date man will dictate his message to an operator, who will prepare tape wholly unintelligible to anyone.
 Thus secrecy, cheapness, rapidity of dispatch, all commercial essentials will be perfectly attained. I do not wish to be understood as saying that the Marconi system has already reached this stage of development-for it has not; but do not want to emphasize the prediction that this is not only a possible stage of its development but an impending fact. I violate no secrecy
 when I say that the mechanism for this evolution of Marconi wireless is even to-day under consideration
 The public, naturally sceptical of all stages of scientific advance, hesitates
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 Marconi system. But, as accomplish
 ment treads close upon the heels of prediction, there is ample cause to be credulous of even the most radical
 prognostications The little machines which I have so. inaptly described as mechanical transmitters and receivers
 are even to-day in existence.