The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-19
MARCONI LAUDED AS| SAVIOR OF 800
 WRECK SURVIVORS
Wizard of Wireless Applauded by New York Electrical
 Society

New York, April 19-Guglielmo Mar conf, standing Wednesday night on a platform in the Engineering Societies Building on West Thirty-ninth street with the corners of his mouth twitch- ing upward and a tension in his hands heard himself called the savior of the Titanic's eight hundred lives. The members of the New York Electrical Society, who had come to hear sober lecture on wireless telegraphy, clap ped him again and again. Mr. Mar conf acted as though they were quite too kind to him. Prof. M. I. Pupin, who made a speech after MT. .Marconi had finished his talk On how wireless telegraphy has progressed, said that one of the things he liked best about MT. Marconi was his modesty.
 Without mentioning the name of the Titanic, MT. Marconi had something to say toward the end of his address on the use of wireless at sea. He said:
 'In view of the fact that during the present week we have heard the aw- full story of the greatest disaster in the annals of navigation, somewhat against my will I feel that I must make some reference to this grim at the problem of wireless telegraphy after close touch with the perils of the sea are very glad that they con- tributed again to the saving of hundreds of precious lives"
 That was about all Mr. Marconi had to say in direct reference to the Titanic The rest of his speech had to do with wireless telegraphing in general with only incidental remarks about it's uses on the ocean. It was enough, however, to set the audience of electrical engineers and their wives into round after round of applause. The Italian inventor stood aside when the handclapping rolled up to him, as though he were merely an incident in the life saving done by his own wire less.
 Mr. Marconi spoke of a new device which would enable ships to find out precisely where they we're in a fog. and thus avoid collisions with one another. Fogs, he said, far from hindering the action of wireless help ed 1t, and by his new device it would be a simple matter for vessels to de- termine exactly their positions. The device would let an operator find out precisely the direction from which a message came. and that by working out angles with shore stations it would be easy to plot the position of would let an, operator know in what direction another ship was travelling through the fog and it would be a simple matter to avoid collision.
 MT. Marconi said that much is be- ing written about interference with wireless messages by, stations other than those to which they were direct ed.
 But" said he, cit is often an ad- vantage to have it possible for any station to be able to pick up a mes> sage, as for instance when ship is in distress
 He went on to speak of the methods by which wireless secrecy could be maintained. The electrical waves from wireless apparatus vary. he said, from six inches to three miles, and it would be possible for two stations to keep themselves attuned to any precise way length. But on the whole this did not seen advisable for general work.
 Prof. Pupin, after he had spent a dozen minutes talking about the great work of Marconi, remarked that one of the next steps would be the utili zation of a generator of altering cur rent instead of the intricate con- densing and spark gap apparatus at present. in use. He thought that if