Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-05
The Country Home
Marconi-The Discoverer of wireless
Te1egraphY
BY MRS. w. Ell. FELTON,

Marconi-The Discoverer of wireless
Te1egraphy
Less than fifty years from now
there will be universal appreciation
and loud acclamationS over two great
men, still living, and of whom the
public thinks but little about, be-
cause they are here and largely over
looked in the rush and hurry about
us.
1 allude to Mr.. Edison, the dis
| coVerer of electrical possibilities and
applications, and Mr.. Marconi, the
discoverer of wireless teIegraphy.
They are the two great men, above
and beyond anybody else, in this era
| of the Twentieth century.
Electricity is, of course, the genius,
the master spirit, of the air--and to
Benjamin Franklin and his expert
ments with a kite, a silk string and
key, we owe the early develop
ments of the electricity in the at
mosphere.
The telegraph was not known until
1874, as a public factor, and it is
said that the results of the Polk
and Clay campaign were among the
notable usages of what can now con-
meet two hemiphers, in daily, aye,
hourly communication. I was a bit
some knowledge of what has been
evolved from Morse's discoveries ard
his application of Franklin's adj
ventures, when the latter drew the
lightning from the sky, and chained
the fiery bolts to general and world
wide usage.
Electricity is the modern Alladdin's
lamp. we now rule the lamp" and
it runs the errands, drags our street
cars and cooks our meals.
h1li1 -
to which the wealth of the famous
Golconda tales sink back into insig
nificance. We start a current ard
run an electrical chair in Sing Sing,
and the criminal is dispatched more
quickly and certainly than the French
guillotine dispatched it's victims in
the French Revolution of 1898.
We arrange an X-Ray macaiS~
affd proceed to count the bones and
expose the inside secrets oof the hu-
man frame. These things are all
mysteries to my mind, and one dis
covered idea opens the way to the
discovery of more astounding and
multiplied mysteries. Marconi was
born of a Lombard father and and
English mother, and still in his
youthful prime, he works miracles
with Franklin's kite and key. Our
minds were seeking to grasp the
telegrapphic mystery when a little
machine in America could send a
message to England in a second of
time through a wire that lies o. the
bottom of the Atlantic ocean, and
that message could be printed III the
daily papers of both continents at
the same hour, on the same day.
But Marconi comes along, and
fixed up an electric spark apparatus,
a miniature lightning maker, and
produces high up in the air three
dots, and called the IS. o. S. CALL"
and ships hundreds of miles distant
can receive it-from another cleo
trio spark apparatus, and these ships
can locate the high up call, with
three dots, and the last one Of them
rush to the point on the trackieaY
ocean, and rescue hundreds of pas
sengers and crews from the sink
wireless messages were in continuous
service, and the German submarines
could go to a ship, British or French
or American, on the trackless ocean.
and blow it up with almost fiendish
audaCity.
This wireless mystery is still
mystery to me. [ see the lightning
flash over the earth and blaze in
the sky. 1t can kill one sleeper in
the same bed and not harm the one
by his side. 1 have seen these things
since l can remem ber-more than
eighty years ago, but 1 know as lit
1 do about Marconfs three dots aiNf,
up in the air-that can race across
wide seas, and tell it's story win
absolute certainty. God works in Il
mysterious way His wonders to per
form"
and Schalk.