The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-06-01
wIRflESS TfLfGRAPhY.*


many announced to the scientific
~ Tl.e undeveloped possibilities of
..,,1eric electricity. Stimulated by
.losures there Immediately fol-
49,, experimental researches by
..t the most distinguished SCENT
.h as Prof. Dolbear in America,
.. Oliver Lodge in England, Popoff
.,a and Brandy in France. But
-a. scientific world awakened no
~red the investigations to any
..c4 account.
.... Hertz was cut off in 1894 at the
-, age Of 81; and although he had
..pt To thinking and working, the
pavsicist himself had not been
Utilize his own researches. His
-ae honor of making one of the
...-t INVENTIONS of the world-fell
t.r.oni, who was IS years old when
made his announcements. Be
.. iatensely absorbed in the sub
worked quietly and steadily on,
.ump wears was the first to make
.ment of transmitting definite
igjUle signals by means of the
n waves" This was done by
ol his elevated conductors"
lounded connection, which.
-Ltr basic inventions, make
'alpgraphy practical and pos
the summer of 1896, by the
1T instruments, he obtained
.istance of one and three
files across a field near his
me in England. In March,
yteuded the distance at Sails
... TO six miles, in May to nine
H III September to ten miles.
attained a distance OF thirty
aud a little later sent mes
Chelmsford, England, to
L Ld1IEt, tDOuU ulbN lh1ibos
nee of communication kept
.v Increasing until, in 1901,
ss sent from the Poldhu sta
.cnWalI across the Atlantic to
\ Newfoundland. Since that
ages have passed between
uu at Cape Cod, Mass, and
.v. \. S. and Poldhu station
HJ
4,certained that the electrical
i'll these stations was not suf-
powerful to guarantee contin-
..,..rn across tile Atlantic A dis
ut moo miles was as great as
-lled upon; but this was suf-
tr the ocean steamers, about
.t which by March, 1905, were
with wireless apparatus, and
tally communication with both
IT'S throughout the voyage. But
.t Ire year, 1904, more powerful
-atters and more sensitive re-
were invented, and these i'm
. H.truments will be in working
.- ring the present summer for
.tltic service in the station at
ay. While visiting this station
&pril Marconi, in an interview
Wspaper reporter said: 81 am
ting some Of my new instru-
.- ETC. Continuing, he added,
HIy we shall be in a position to
hina and Japan across the
can" These four towers, 210
"a. standing on a rocky cliff
shore, were taken down at
Hest of the British Govern
- ..i set up three miles inland
of the range of an enemy's
lse of war. This has caused
A5 soon as the new electrical
is installed, similar appara-
INES as powerful as that now
ID. be set up III the towers at
Mass, thus completing two
u this continent for trans
-rTvice. Scores of men are
we'd erecting stations along
dian coast, Labrador, Sable
tHl elsewhere. A high-power
in course of construction at
r. Italy, for communicating with
q lmerica. thence with New Zea-
,traHa and around the world.
e-s biography has wide field to
ion-the land as we'll as the sea.
AIRY recently remarked: ''The
s , now no longer an experiment.
assured fact; and in the near
- ne atmospheres of the world
brating with countless MESA
he passengers on the ocean
"uds are kept in daily touch
K, r worlds events. On the ships
tunard Line newspapers a9I
turing the night and the
tliIetin' is placed beside every
plate at the breakfast table.
ship plunges on, the Marconi
operator, in mid-ocean, learns
" erps are passing, though hun
i miles away, and the names of
pal passengers on board. If
ped ship is in distress, he
In short, the worlds hap
uI sea and land are instantly
nd the dispatches are labeled
lgrams direct to the ship"
~ sent neWs-rate from the land to
n