The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-08-06
MARG0NI PATENTS I
CLAIMED IN SUIT :.
FILED BY TESLA
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Bulletin To Federal Wireless
RI Brings Word o. Litigation ,
involving Millions
SERBIAN INVENTOR
SEEKS TO RECOVER
Control OF Air Waves Hidden
In Maze of Legal ..'' We
Controversy

A bulletin to the Federal Wireless
Telegraph Company's office here from
San Francisco, brought word last night
that Nicola Tesla fled suit yesterday
in New York against the Mareoni Wire
less Telegraph Company of America,
for alleged infringement VI patents.
The message came prepaid, unsigned.
II is dated New York and, from the
text would appear to be either a news
despatch printed in San Francisco and
picked up there by the Federal or
bread cast upon the waters by Tesla
himself s. Z rE- H,
Text OF Ths Message
The text of the message follows:
| Nicola Tesla has appealed TO the
law 10 declare. that he and not Mar
conf is the inventor Of the wireless
telegraph. Suit has been brought
in the United States district court
here (New York; in the name Of
the Nicola Tesla Company, Of
which the Serbian inventor is the
| president Defendant IL the Mar
conf wireless Telegraph Company
Of America. Millions are involved.
Tesla announced today In connec-
ticn with the suit that he recently
has been granted patent by the
United States government which
will supersede and revolutionize
the present forms and appliances
Of wireless companies.
Federal Not Affected
Al the Offices of the Federal it wa!
said last night that nothing, of the suit
vas known here, but that in any even
it could not affect the Federal, which
employs the Poulsen system. ..a
as was the case with the telephone
.hs automobile. the aeroplane and nj
other epoch-making Inventions sal,
w. p. s. Hawk, manager here of th'
Marconi plant, when shown the les
match last night, 1.-the wireless ha
been hidden in a cloud of LITIGATION.
eve have suits against the Tele
funken system in the eastern Fedora
courts. the Federal Wireless In tn
United States district court at Sal
Francisco which has jurisdiction owe
California, and there Is litigation b.
tween the Marconi and the De Fores
companies. By
Inventor OF Transformer
"Tesla is the inventor of the trans
former which permits current to b
stepped up to higher or stepped dow
to lower voltage, and he has bee
talking for years about having invent
ed wireless, but until now he neve
has brought suit to test his claims.
1.-THE Federal uses the Ppulsen, sys
TEN, the invention of Dane, who sol
his rights in America to the Fedora
In all other countries they are cor
trolIed by the Mareoni. .. ~ hr ".
when Mr.. Nally was here fey
weeks ago he told us that, with th
exception of the United States, th
POulsOn patents had everywhere bee
acquired by the parent Mareoni con
pany of London. l don t think tina
r fact is generally known.
? ~ read the other day in the aftel
noon paper that the Federal eompan
is contemplating an extension of il
service to Australia. So far rs / al
awape, all the Anstralasian wireless
, stations are controlled by the govern
ment.
. Private Companies Barred
, "N0 private company yet has bee
able to obtain entrance to Australasia
to the best of my knowledge. OF eOurs
commune alton could be opened b
tween government plant in Austri
, lasia and some other station, just as y
have tailed with the Japanese govern
ment station nj TOXIC. and soon sha
open a commercial service.
"Our next step will be to open
direct service between Honolulu on
Austra lasia. The BIaht here was d
stoned and brih with that end in vicV
That is why II is a $I.000000 plant,
Yes, the distance Is 400 odd miles
Sydney and $500 miles to Aueklan'
but, on a test, signals have been 81
: changed between Honolulu and I'll
Marcori station at New Brunswick, q
the Atlantic coast more than 5000 mill
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