Evening star., 1914-07-20
POSSIBLE TO TALK
ACROSS THE OCEAN
Marc0ni Makes Prediction of
Great Advance on Present
Wireless System.
LONG DISTANCE VISION
ALSO DEEMED CERTAIN
Miracles of the Etheric Waves Fore.
seen by Famous Scientist-Ap-
plieations of Electricity.

LONDON. July I::-One Of tiI.sv days
the head OF :; London business may step
70 the wireless phone.
Ring up New York he Il order. Get
my New York manager on the ether.
That isn't Impossible. Giusiielmo Mar
ooni says 50. Perhaps the New York
manager IS in1isopseG. Maybe he doesn I
want TO talk to his superior. In which
ease he may try IL disguise his Voice.
Bur I wouldn't do him u Dit OF good.
All. ila." the London manager would
say, .'enialIy. You little rascal. You I
see ycu.
The on. ;rnDossible thing about that
imagined situation is that the London
:y,;.Tascr is -opresented as being genial.
y further miracle % the etheric waves
may come In the future. 1, may be that
the New York manager is determined to
abstain from conversation by wireless
with his boss. IL may even be that he
nay hide behind the door. Even that
WoulG rot help him. \ further applica-
lion OF the ttneric waves may penetrate
That door and disclose the guilty sliverer
to the gaze Of his incen3ed master.
We are now talking for short distances
by ireless. said Mr.. Marcori when L
called upon him ~ Mareoni House. Oh
IN. strand. ''I:y short distances | mean
W. TO lG2 miles or so. Within another
month or this system will be working
commercially. II is quite as feasible to
talk Tor long distances by wireless as for
short distances. 1t only requires the ap
i'ication OF more power.
To Talk Across Ocean.
Will the day ever come when tele-
phonic conversation across the sea by
wireless may be possible:
Undoubtedly, said Mr.. Marconi u
Will go further. We will be talking from
London to New York 10y wireless long be-
fore We will be talking between the same
cities by cable. Wireless telephony over
great distances is I. less difficulty under
taking than is telephoning similar dis
tances by cable.
Very recently there appeared the an
nouncement of Invention by which it
may be possible for the parties to a
telephone conversation to see each Other.
The inventor declares the apparatus to be
a comparatively simple one and capable
OF Univ erSal use.
Il see no reason to douot it.. said Mr..
Marconi. Il have been too busy with my
work for the wireless to pay much at;eI.-
tion to il. But there IS nothing inherently
Impossible in theory.
Mr. Marconi laughed. He has i singu-
larly taking smile. this man who has
made ether help carry our burdens. He
sat with his back othe window in the
great office i'll Ma-coni House. This
structure itself. ny tie way. is quite Nn-
like American business Offices: 1t retains
something of that guarded seclusion, that
residential quaiity. which is so dear to the
English heart One steps from the roar
of the Strand TO d quiet hallway. almost
cathedral like in its vaultiir-.. anu draw
ing-room Hike as TO its carpets. y conf
mlssionaire covered with service. medals
desires to know III, what manner he can
serve YOU. In the end ono tiI,ds his way
by silent lift to Mr.. Marconis Office to
ind a kindly. somewhat reticent. rather
tired man willing 10 answer questions.
He does not volunteer Information
Where Science Overreaches.