The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-07-13
but the principal one practically demanded
a monopoly of the wireless telegraph bust

but the principal one practically demanded
a monopoly of the wireless telegraph bust
ness by Marconi This demand was thrown
out by the courts, which ruled that Maroon
had not been the first to use wireless teleg-
raphy, having been preceded by Branley OF
France, Professor Lodge of England and by
Popotf of Russia. OF the other five CLAIMS
only two were maintained and these poth
relate to the old style receiver which Mar
conf is still using, but which De Forest has
replaced by the far superior instrument
which mentioned above. But the joke OK
the whole matter lies in the fact that al
though Marconi claims it was sweeping
victory for his system and crushing blow
to the De Forest system, he now comes out
and attempts to appeal the case! That is
almost as unheard of, allowing the premise
that Marconi had triumphed, as it would be
to hear winning baseball team protest the
game and desire to have it disallowed. Ana
vet in the face of all this Marconi and his
agents have the nerve to say with perfect
" straight face and as if they expected peo-
pie to believe them, that this young Yale
graduate by the name OF DE Forest" mas
been dealt crushing blow and is now hors
de combat. What Marconi did succeed in
doing was to persuade the courts to force
De Forest from using form of instrument
which he had already discarded as worth
less and which he had replaced by
vastly superior device in every way. That
this is true is fully evidenced by the
newspapers of the present time. If the
Marconi claims had been maintained and
monopoly given to him, we would see noth-
ing in the papers about the marvellous
achievements of the De Forest system, and
vet every newspaper reader knows mat thls
is inst the reverse The recent achieve
ments of DR.. De Forest have brought MS
name before the American puoilc as
synonym for success. HIS recent REMARK
able test on the Chicago u Alton rallroaa
has been heralded far and wide as one OF
the greatest feats OF scientific achleVemehl
ACCOMPLISHED during this last hall century
of wonderful advance in all departments OF
scientific research. Every newspaper read
err has seen continually notice to the effect
that some new De Forest station was just
opening. Very recently bridgeport ana
Hartford were opened, and am informed
that before this article appears IN your
paper that Boston will already be sendlhg
messages to New York and New Haven,
and Portland and Providence are nearly
ready to follow suit. The station at Man
haitian Beach is also practically finished Tor
the sending of MESA yes across the Atlantic
and lust as soon as the one ON the other
side is put up, these wonderful ether waves
will go Vibrating from this continent 10
England and vice versa. AS soon as TINS IS
accomplished, it will become more ana
more evident that Dr.. De Forest did not
merely take few of the Marconi inStru-
ments and sold stock on the strength of
that, but that he is practical inventor Oh
wonderful genius, and that he has pushed
his company through to successful opera
ton with all that energy and push when is
SO characteristic of the American business
man of to-day, and which is forcing this |
country ahead of the world in matters OF |
business and commercial development. |
When we stop to think that the Chicago |
and Alton road is going to equip all It's
trains with De Forest instruments very |
shortly; that the United States Government |
has given numerous contracts to this COM
pany for equipping ships Of our navy and |
communications between army posts; that |
the London Times has employed this sye- |
tenn and not the Marconi for reporting the |
operations going on in the far east between |
Russia and Japan, no other argument is
necessary to convince any American who is |
at all conversant with the progress OF the |
world, that it is the De Forest system which |
is going to revolutionize modern methods OF |
communication, and that this great honor, |
as in the case of the telegraph, is going to |
an American born scientist, man typical |
of the energy and science of the modern !
young American, raised in this country and |
trained in our own scientific schools, which |
makes the De Forest wireless system dis |
tinctly American product.
Very truly yours.
FRED H. BEACH.
New Haven, Conn, June 2S, 1905.