The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-29
MarcOni's Visit May Mean
COmmercializing of System.
Business Grows Faster Than
Lines Are Built.
PLANS WIRELESS TELEPHONE
Inventor May Be Working on
New Plan, Friends Believe.
Borden Again FOresees Pros
perity, Holland Says.

New York March 29.-Marconi's visit
to the United States at the present
time is presumably in part explained
by the announcement that the Wireless
Telegraph company identified by his
name is about to absorb the United
companies, doing that upon a basis
which will be, as alleged, satisfactory
to the interests of the stockholders of
both companies.
Mr.. Marconi's presence in the United
States district court for several hours
on Monday of this week when the an
nouncement was made of the arrange
ment between the Marconi and the
United Wireless Telegraph companies
justified the belief that he came to the
United States at this time to aid in
perfecting arrangements which would
put an end to long litigation.
While this was undoubtedly the chief
reason for the coming of Marconi tc
the United States at this time it has
been the presumption that before he
returns to England he will speak to
men of capital of certain projects
which he has in mind. In recent in
terview he intimated that the expert
mentS which those who have been per
fecting the wireless system have con-
Quoted have justified them in believ-
ing that it is only a question of in
venting the proper apparatus to make
commercially practicable long distance
telephoning through the utilization of
the AertZian electric waves
This intimation is in line with hints
or forecasts which Edison and George
Westinghouse have occasionally made,
although always in the way of con-
lecture. The men of science have been
convinced since Marconi perfected ap-
paratuS which would SO utilize electric
waves created by high electric dis
charges as to convey messages from
the western coast OF Ireland to the
eastern coast of Newfoundland that
from the point of view of science this
natural phenomenon ought to be as
serviceable for the transmission of tel
ephonic messages. In one of the ad-
dresses delivered by Mr.. Westinghouse
about two years ago he intimated his
belief that the electric atmospheric
waves could ultimately be so utilized
by apparatus as to make it possible to
operate from shore a torpedo or even
to explode a mine or reach the maya
zine of a battleship. OF course, if
apparatus could be invented by which
electricity could be conveyed from
station upon the shore to a batt1eship,
threatening its magazine, science would
provide the way by which the maya
zine could be perfectly protected. But
a demonstration of the feasibility of
utilizing energy sufficient to control
torpedo boat or to endanger electric
waves for the purpose of conveying a
battleship would also prove hypotheti-
cally the ability to utilize these waves
for the conveyance of telephone mes
Sages.
Edison has pictured the time in d
future not distant when every one car
carry around pocket telephone 81
tuned as to respond to a like instru-
ment in his own home with which he
can at any time communicate with his
family or friends. Marconi, apparent
ly, has no thought of the development