New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-18
WIRELESS PAPERS SOON.
Marc0ni VIII Install One Plant a
Week. on Liners.

Commentators GugIIeIrno Marconi, who was on
the Campania her last trip. making experiments
with a view to establishing daily paper on liners
for the publication Of news received by wireless
telesraphy. is staying at the Holland House. Seen
last night. he said:
I shall sail on the Campania on Saturday and
before her return trip from Liverpool she will be
paper. The next vessel to be provided with sni-
a vessel viii be htted out every week until the
full complement Of publishing outfits has been
or course, there will be only about day when
the vessel is IN midocean that the news VIII be re-
pete, however. is the present International news
service that the events on one side Of the ocean are
known almost simultaneously at all the principal
centres on both sides. so that the contact with
passed will keep those on board informed OF the
Important happenings the world over throughout
the voyage.
Could you now transmit message across the
ocean with the same efficiency that you able
to send 1t to a vessel in midocean?" was asked.
Yes" he replied. 1T might take a little
longer but 7 do it whenever 1 will l shall
not however. make any public demonstrate ton on
that line until have properly equipped the sta
tons intended for transatlantic business. One IS
now being established Pisa. in Italy. and
another in which the government will be interest
ed will be established in England at point not
yet definitely determined on. These. with that at
Poldhu in Cornwall. England viii work In con-
junction with the stations at Cape Cod and Cape
Breton"
ElucidatinS one point the interest OF a clearer
conception in the popular mind. Mr. Marconi said:
The height of the aerals. or masts. that are en-
ploved at the points OF transmission, minimizes or
electrical energy necessary to receive
or transmit q message-that IS to say, If aerial
of a certain height were employed AT a land sta
ton and it was only practicable TO install aerial
half that height on a vessel, the electrical energy
must of necessity be proportionatey increased To
send a message the distance. 1t must OF
course be understood that the chief function OF the
eouipnent on the vessel far the long distance
messages IA concerned. is to receive such as have
their impulse from the shore stations. The mess
sent from the vessels for shorter distances
10 other vessels, or when leaving or approaching
the land. ,,
present time is very small the amount of eectrl-
city that feeds a single incandescent light would
send q wireless message a hundred ana nifty miles
and that is only a 16-candle power Lighter so
watts OF electrical energy
SpeakIng OF the work of Father Josephy Murgas
of Wikesbarre Penn. who says he has completed
a wireless telegraph system Mr.. Marconi said:
I wish him success in his purpose to devote the
fruits of his labor to the needs OF the church If
however / may base prediction upon my own X
perience I would say that in applying his inven-
ton as a practical proposition he will be under the
necessity OF abandoning the ministry. The devel-
opment of the matter VIII demand GIL OF MS time.
II is nine years since began my experiments.
The public has, naturally. little appreciation OF
the distances that must be covered In the expert
ments that are necessary in wireless telegraphy
that spans the Atlantic One-half Of the apparatus
is in England and the other half In America, and
one round trip between the shore stations means
six thousand miles travel. I note the fact that
the Wllkesbarre inventor has exper1mented be-
tween his house and a station two miles away and
has been successful