New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-14
THE INTENTOR'S RECORD.
His Remarkable 4chicUcmcnts IN
Wreless TcIegraphY.

Scarcely six years have elapsed since Mr.. Mar
conf first attracted public by his achieve
ments n wireless teIegraphy. He opened
munication between Alum Bay. or the Isle Of
Wight, and Bourremoutr. IN Hampshire in 1898.
and on Christmas Eve that year initiated a per
manent service between the South Foreland Light
house and the East Goodwin Sands Lightshp.
In the distance covered was eighteen
miles. and in the other It twelve miles In
March. 1899. he sent tho first message the
English Channel. Mt point where the latter is
about thirty miles wide Then followed the OF
the system for reporting steamships. The first
vice performed by the Siasconsett CNantuckeU sta
ton was on August IS 1851 and announced the
arrival Of the Lucania- Steps were taken that
year, too. to ascertain the suitability Of wireless
telegraphy for naval signalling.
Having to Newfoundland in December.
1901. to make further experiments, and having
previously equipped a station at Poldhu. in Corn
wall England. with a powerful transmitter. Mr..
Marconi was convinced that he received signals
sent to him across the ocean. These were only
repetitioos OF the letter IS" were heard In
telephone. but not recorded with Instruments
The kite which supported his vertical wire during
these tests unsteady, which still further en-
barrassed him. So great advance was this step
upon his previous work, and completely had
he concealed his intentions from the world that
some skeptcism felt at the time about the
accuracy Of his observations Signal IIil on
December y and l3
All doubt vanished. however when the next i'm
portant tests made Mr.. Marconi was then
the steamship Philadelphia his way America.
On February p. 1902. when l.55l1z miles from
Poldhu message made up Of words was received
on the steamship. The following day signals were
recognized at distance Of 2.o99 miles from Podhu
AS the messages and signals We're automatically
registered. and the ships officers testified the
position Of the Philadelphia the time his
was proved convincingiy.
Experimental work conducted IN the summer
and autumn of 1902 the warshp Carlo Alberto
which had been lent 10 Mr.. Masconi by the King
Of Italy. The ship. equipped with wireless tele
graph instruments, sailed from Naples June TO-
and on June IS exchanged messages with Marconi
then land at the Lizard The Carlo Alberto took
him board. and after the coronation exercises
started on long cruise. Messages were received
from Poldhu and sent 10 naval vessels in tho Baltic
and Mediterranean seas. in some instances travers-
ing several hundred miles.
After few weeks delay at Spezzia Italy. the
Carlo Alberto started for America. She approached
the coast of Cape Breton at the close Of October.
1902. In the mean time n station had been erected
in that province at Table Head Glace Bay.
Wellheet, Cape Cod. 10 replace which had
been constructed there previously. but which had
been wrecked by storm. The Table Head AMI
South Wellheet stations are almost exactly alike;
The former is about 800 miles from Foldhu ana
the latter 800 miles further The Siasconse station
both Of them are fuIIy 200 miles from sandy Hook.
Sagaponack on Long Island. where another station
been established. is about ninety miles from this
Experimental work at Table Head was delayed by
a number Of trihng difficulties, such as the neces-
sty for sending TO Montreal for additional pieces
Of apparatus Code messages We're exchanged
between Table Head and Podhu without publicity
early in December, 1902 Formal greetings TO King
Edward VII King Victor Emmanuel III and other
distinguished persons sent on December q.
After remaining two three weeks in Canada, Mr..
Marconi came to Cape Cod. He sent President
Roosevelt's message 70 King Edward with his own
hand on January 49, 1903. 4 few weeks later Il
number Of neg,s dispatch transmitted from
this country TO The London Times" but for rea-
sons which not yet been fully explained some
difficulty was encountered In sending messages IN
Z he oppOsitc direction from PolGhu
Though Mr. Marcon visited America again !aSt
Senter5ber ana though mis- invention has found
wider ;Ise in the merchant marine and some foreign
"a lies no epuarent advance has yet been made IN
Establishing transoceanic service The King of
TtaI,r Nc In several ways has shown helpful In
aSt te@aSst IN ~, Narcori's work, is said to have
offered to him the use Of the Carlo Alberto sec3
ond tine II was expected that the inventor would
sail n her for this country in April; The death or
his father n few weeks ago made necessary
change in his plans re theh ueClHeo l" Oo'''0 ~
transatlantic steamship