Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-25
Reserved and Cautious In Statement,
Says Little to Directors, But Proves
His Faith by Works-How the Sys-
tenn of Air Messages Is Benefitting

so far away after ALL Now most OF
the big ships are supplied with this
apparatus and are talking with the
land from all over the face of the
ocean.
Marconi's other name is Guglielmo,
which stripped of its "G's" means
William. Despite his Italian name he
is more English than Latin in his ap-
pearance and disposition. He is re-
served, cautious in statement, not
much given TO adjectives and super
latives and looks like a young Ameri-
can business man. Just how such a
reticent youth could spring from an
has not been explained. Perhaps, af-
ter ALL individuality lies very much
deeper than we see, and the soul
shapes and governs the body 1t in
habits. Genius transcends all known
rules Neither heredity nor environ
ment accounts for it. We only know
its presence, but cannot tell its ORR
gin. 1t belongs to no nationality and
to all.
Born In a Palace.
Marconi was born i'm 1874. He
first saw the light in palace. 1t has
become a tradition that poverty cam
not deter a great man from reaching
the mark. 1t is now being discover
ed that riches cannot deter them eth
er. They will attain the goal what
ever their outward circumstances. 1t
is what man has in him, not what
he has outside of him, that counts.
Marconi's father was said to be the
| lightest hearted and best natured
man in Italy" The inventor is his
youngest son. The lad took to books
as other boys do to sports. Science
interested him from the beginning.
Not only the text books did he read,
but the news of the latest expert
ments. Electricity, the most fascina-
ting and mysterious known forces,
captivated the youths attention, and
so eagerly did he pursue the study
that his watchful mother had fire.
quently to drive him to bed o nights.
Young Marconis teacher, Professor
Righi, found his pupil so inventive
and persevering that from the begin
ming he predicted for the studious lad
and illustrious career. All great men
are not dull boys and early promise
is sometimes fulfilled.
Before he had attained his MAORI
ty Marconi was experimenting with
what is known as the HertZian cleo
trio wave theory. He made his great
discovery of wireless telegraphy and
came of age i'm the same year In
1902, after he had startled the world
by sending aerial messages across the
ocean, he said of this early triumph:
THE greatest success / ever ac-
complished was when | succeeded in
sending faint signal across room
i'm my fathers house seven years ago.
That was an elemental success. Ev-
erything | have done since that has
depended upon that first struggle"
Everything usually does depend on
a first struggle; also on subsequent
struggles The only way To win a
victory is to fight. The only way to
reach the top of a mountain is 10
climb. The only way to do things Is
to work. Edison says of Marconl
that he is "a worker" If he had not
been worker the marconigram
would have been known by some oth-
er name.
Discovered Use of Vertical Wire.
After that initial triumph the young
scientist made other experiments IN
Italy. Professor Righi assisting un-
I'll the modern system of wireless te-
legraphy was worked out. For one
thing Mr. MarcOni discovered the use
of the vertical wire. He found that
the first essential factor for Sendlhe
messages through the air is height
Further, he determined the law that
the distance to which the message
can be sent increases in geometrlcaI
ratio with the elevation. With TINS
principle established he believed that
it would be possible 10 telegraph
across seas, even around the Worid
itself. All that was required was
poles of sufficient height.
The fathead and the conservative
scoffed. They always do. Nothlhe
was ever proposed 10 beneht the
world. but what some intellectual owl
hooted, "ImpOssible."
For one thing they objected thai
the various messages would interfere
with each other as their paths cross
ed and that the atmosphere Woulu
become a chaos of conflicting tele-
graphic waves. Then they Sall llid'
every instrument would be afecteo
by each message sent out. As lol
wireless messages across the ocean
preposterous. the dream of a VISION
ary, Whenever ignorance wants tI
condemn some new thing utterly
shrugs its shoulders and mutterS
"Visionary!'
; Marconi was not disturbed pA
these dismal forrbndings. He knew
The man who knows can always neg
; lect the pessimistic walls of the uh'
, Informed. Moreover, Marconl khe"
how to think. Original thought l.
) the rarest thing in the world. we
call original thought genius. only
about one man in Il thousand cal
think for himself. The other wy nus
their second hand ideas tn their men
tai breastbones and cry at IN" MAJ
who is able to form new concept
"Dreamer.'
William Marconia had caught al
: original glimpse of IL new fact. AS
: logical deduction he inferred certain
: other facts. Therefore he believed
: The world has been moved onward
by men who believed Not by blint