The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-24

bottom 1t has, and how is It possible
 to lay a cable of any size from Europe
 to America so that 1t will be safe from
 dsstruction7 Besides. people argued,
 even if they get wire down that will stay they cant get current strong
 enough to convey 3 message across
 such great distance, 50 the whole
 thing will be failure. But once again the doubters were mistaken, and
 some forty years Of ocean teiegraphy is 4 convincing proof that the thing could be done
 And we all know how recently the
 idea of wireless telegraphys was
 laughed at as a good joke. Forgetting or ignoring the wonders that had ai- ready been accomplished and the sur prises that had come to the world in connection with telegraphy. this last project was looked on as one of the absolute impossibiiities. It was bad enough to claim that people could send
 messages over wires. but when we | a
 were told that the wires were not ne- cessary. but that words and sentences could be launched Into the air and
 would go where directed and there be recorded--why. that was really piIing
 it on little too heavy, and the doubt
 CTS in this case were not confined to the ignorant and uninformed. for wise men and scientists were among the
 skeptics. It seemed to be going be-
 yond the limit.
 But now the assurance comes that not only is wireless telegraphy an ac- compiished fact. but that under the experiments and discoveries of Marconi
 wireless messages from Europe to America will soon be common. It Is true that this method of communica- ton is not q sudden inspiration or the result of an accident. for there has been research and experimentation along this line for years. but only of late has 1t been apparent that the eff fort has passed the stage of experi- ment and is an accomplished fact. While it may be said that this success is the continuation of perhaps two cen- turies of study, 1t is equally true that the actpai success Is the direct result
 of strictly modern effort and perse- veranoe. And referring to this won derful achievement contemporary
 we believe it was The Hartford Times says:
 When one comes to figure upon the ! practical advantages of the new sys- tenn, he hesitates to express himself
 even in this day when everything
 seems possible. Granted that wireless
 telegraphy works. and that in time 1t will be developed more and more to
 meet present criticism, it must prove
 a tremendous factor in the every day l life of the world. It is inexpensive, as compared with present methods of tel egraphy. Trans-oceanic rates are all ready reduced to just one-half of those hitherto exacted by the cable coinpa- l nies, and there is definite promise of still further reductions This means
 freer intercourse between the conti- nents, and Is a guarantee not only of an impulse to business throughout the world, but of a better understanding
 between the nations. And there is nothing to limit the extension of the system. The ether Is all pervading. Wireless stations can be erected any, where. They are on the ships already. They will soon rise In forest and .des-' ert around the earth. bringing the race into closeness of contact. in an in-
 timacy of communion, whose benef-
 cent effects are hardly to be described.
 And who shall limit the prophecies to be builded on the MarcUni achieve
 ment2 If the electric impulse that spells words in the Morse alphabet
 crosses the Atlantic with no wires to
 direct It's course. why not, in time, the electric impulse that yibrates the re-
 ceiver in the telephonef Wireless tel- lephony Is already further advanced
 than was wireless telegaphy ten years ago. Again, why ise not electrical en- ergy to be transmitted in the same way? In a congratuiatory message to Marconi Sir Hiram Maxim says, among
 other things: Perhaps the next step will be to harness the whole energy of Niagara to make an attempt to com municate with Mars" Yes, "perhaps.p, | It is not necessary to dwell upon these
 speeulations, however. The tangible results before us are sufficient to oc- cupy our thought. Marconi, yet a young man of thirty-three. has con quered a secure place in history by an
 Invention that is to make infinitely for