The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
MARCONI SYSTEM
TO Be EXPLAINED
Wireless TeIegraphy viii be
Explained Monday Night
PUBLIC EXHIBITION FREE
w. A. Ryan Will Deliver Lecture at
High School Auditorium-AIl the
Governments Interested In
the New System.

Wireless telegraphy will De explained
and illustrated at the Birmingham High
school auditorium next Monday night
There will be no charge.
Few people realize what great strides
have been made in development OF The
Marconi wireless telegraph system" says
W. A. Ryan. who is here for the purpose
of giving an exhibition OF wireless tele-
graph. so rapid has been the progress
made that the public has been unable to
keep in touch with It, To have brought
a scientific invention like that of Mr.
Marconl to perfection within so short a
time and to have made it commercial
success within the period of three or four
years is an accomplishment that seems
more like the results of necromaney than
the sober commercial evolution of the
twentieth century.
IN the March number of the Technical
World, published at Chicago. a prosy re-
port of a naval officer is introduced by
the following editorial paragraph Peo-
pie who still doubt the value of wireless
telegraph are invited to read the follow
ing official report, and following this is
a record of eleven marine disasters dur
ing the year 1905 in which the wireless
telegraph has played an important part
in affording instant relief The article is
embellished with photographs of Mar
conf stations. The New York Sunday
World recently devoted a page to the
record of the Mareoni system as a life
saving agent under the caption of Thou
sands of Lives and Millions of Dollars
Worth of Property Saved by Wireless
Telegraph and more recently the New
FORK Sunday Sun, in an illustrated article
headed Wireless Telegraph Now Guards
Ships, devoted nearly a page to recent
accomplishments of the Marconi system.
Only last Sunday the New York Amerl-
can devoted nearly two pages to a con-
sideration of the possibilities of the wire
less telegraph.
Rivalry for Supremacy.
All the great governments of the earth
are engaged in rivalry for supremacy
in the field of wireless telegraph in its
application TO the service of the war and
navy departments, and the British navy
prides itself ON being foremost in that
field of endesvor Recently the Morconi
company has been commissioned to extend
the wireless service to every craft in the
service of the admiralty and to every
British port; Canada has contracted for
three pew stations on the Pacific coast
in seAtion TO the twenty-three now in
existence on the Canadian Atlantic sea-
board; presently a chain of stations will
stretch across the continent from Halifax
to Vancouver.
''rhe greatest event in the history of
the wireless telegraph, however will be
the opening of commercial communication
between America and Europe about the
LIST of May through the great trans-At-
lantic stations erected for that purpose
at Sidney, Nova Scotia, and on the west
coast of Ireland Under contract with
the Canadian government the Marconi
company has agreed to give the people
of Canada a maximum rate of 10 cents
per word on transatlantic kilograms
and to the press of Canada a rate OF
cents per word. This is a reduction of
more than so per cent from the present
cable charges.
Marked Development.
''The company has developed from a
non paying concern in three years to a
stage where its operations now show a
profit, and this with an equipment that
from the standpoint of present wire tele-
graph systems is of the meagerest posi-
BILE advantage. Practically the only
sources of revenue today are the receipts
from kilograms exchanged between YES
sells at sea and the stations OF the COM
pany on shore. When these sources of
revenue have been augmented by the adj
dltion of the transatlantic system the
company will at once take its place as
one of the greatest money-earners known
to the commercial world
I'm the course of my lecture at the
new High school it is my purpose to
demonstrate the practical working of the
Marconl system and to show its wonder
full growth and possibilities. i am sure
the people of Birmingham will be inter-
ested to learn about the Marconi system
Everywhere we have been our exhibitions
have been attended by the best people and
our exhibition halls have been crowded
to their utmost capacity.
"The new High school auditorium Is the
most beautiful lecture hall we have had
at our disposal. and Is credit to the
people of Birmingham. There is not in
any of the cities we have visited one to
equal it in point of comfort and ca
pacity, and we have visited the best
cities in New England New York, Penn
sylvania and West Virginia