The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-28

Get my New York manager on the
ether"
That isn't impossible. Guglielmo
Marconi says so. Perhaps the New
York manager is in%disposed. Maybe
he doesn't want to talk to his SUI
perior. In which case he may try to
disguise his voice. But it wouldn't do
him a bit of good.
"Ah, ha," the London manager
would say, genially. You little ras-
cal, you. I see you!"
n. imaaine a Genial Londoner.
The one impossible thing about
that imagined situation is that the
London manager is represented as
being genial. A further miracle OF
the etheric waves may come in the
future. It may be that the New York
manager is determined to abstain
from conversation by wireless with
his boss. It may be that he may hide
behind the door. Even that would
not help him. A further application OF
the etheric waves may penetrate that
door and disclose the guilty shiverer
to the gaze of his incensed master.
1--WE are now talking for short dis
tances by wireless said Mr.. Marconi
when I called upon him at Marcon1
house, on the Strand. "By short dis
tances l mean up to 100 miles or so.
Within another month or SO this sys-
tenn will be working commercially. 1t
is quite as feasible to talk for long
- x-3-11oca oe f0~ cbrHf do
tances. 1t only requires the applica-
ton of more power"
To Talk Across Ocean.
will the day ever come when tela-
phonic conversation across the sea by
wireless may be possible "
Undoubtedly" said Mr.. Marconi.
II will go further. We will be talk
ing by wireless from London to New
York before we will be talking
between the same cities by cable.
Wireless telephony over great dis
tances is a less difficult undertaking
than is telephoning similar distances
by cable"
Very recently there appeared the
announcements vi Oil ~
which it may be possible for the par.
ties to telephone a conversation to
see each other. The inventor declares
the apparatus to be a comparatively
simple one and capable of universal
use.
Nothing Impossible.
~ at 600 M rp1SNn tn dOnhf IT,
: said Mr.. Marconi. 81 have been too
busy with my work for the wireless
to pay much attention to it. But
there Is nothing inherently impossible
in theory"
Mr.. Marconi laughed. He has a
singularly taking smile, this man
who has made ether help carry our
burdens. He sat with his back to
the window in the great office in the
Marconi house. This structure it.
self, by the way, is quite unlike any
American business offices. 1t re-
tains something of that guarded Sc
| clusion, that residential quality
which is so dear to he English heart
One steps from the roar of the
Strand to a quiet hallway, almos,
cathedral like in it's vaulting, and
drawing room like as to its carpets
A commissionaire covered with serv
ice medals desires to know in wha,
name he can serve you. In the enc
one finds his way by silent lift to Mr.
Marcori's office, to find a kindly
somewhat reticent, rather tired MAI
willing to answer questions. He
does not volunteer information.
Where Science Overcroaches.
LET us hope that seeing-by-wir'
plan does not come into general use,
said he. Zone may have a very goot
friend who is yet a bore. Nowaday
our good friend rings up and say
that he wants to tell us a good story
We know by experience that his goo
story will be as long as the Sahar;
desert and as dusty.
Dear old chap we say to him
SO sorry. But my wife is waiting a
the door. Won't you-please-rinl
me up when l get home and tell M
your yarn then
But if our good friend the bore
could look into his mirror and sec u
frown and shake a fist at him-well
we might lose a friend. possibly"
Just the same, seeing-by-wire ma,
come. If it does come, seeing-by
wireless will also be an order of tn
future.
w could certainly see by wire