Evening star., 1922-11-05
DY COMMANDER STANFORD
HOOPER.
United Statea NAyy.


HOOPER,,
United states Havy.
Radio. the greatest of all secrets
yet wrested from nature. was con-
ceived in the brain of Hertz. Ger
man. and born of the imagination OF
Marconi, of Italian and Irish paren-
tage.
or the outstanding figures in the
radio firmament-and they are rap
idly becoming more and more numer-
ous-these two men will always form
the center. because it is as result OF
the product of their minds that
radio has been given to'the world.
With the discovery of radio in it's
practical form, Marconi envfsaged the
seeming miracle of world -wide CONF
munication without connecting wires.
He even envisaged the seeming su-
per-miracle Of the exchange of in
Simultaneous communications with
ships far out at sea.
All Within Generation.
We now have come TO regard as
commonplace in this respect that
which formerly would he considered
miraculous-and all within genera
ton.
italian inventor promptly took his
discovery to London.
However skeptical the British Off
cials may have been. the young man
did not meet with ridicule.
The potentialities involved were too
maritime powers of the world-and
Marconi's claims were listened to.
Presumably they were listened to
sympa the etically, because we learn
| that six months afterward. or in July
| 1895. Marconi conducted demonstra.
tion on land before British civiilan
| naval and military officials with the
remarkable result that communica
! tions were exchanged over a distance
! of nearly two miles.
Skepticism Gives Way to Wonder.
Skepticsm then gave way to won
der. and as later demonstration:
were made, eliminating in the ex
change of communications across
Bristol channel. a distance of three
miles. wonder began to give way tt
enthusiasm, and the fame of thu
telegraphy" began to traverse thu
wires of the ocean cables.
| About this time. Marconi was call
ed to Italy to give demonstration
, before the king. and while there
| succeeded in exchanging communica
tions with the Italian cruiser Sar
Martin ten miles distant at sea. Thi:
constituted the first wireless or radio
communication between vessel
sea and the land
Marconi then returned to England
and the serious development of the
| radio art and it's application to mari
time and other uses began.
| Outstanding events followed on
another rapidly thereafter in radio
as man CROPPED his way forward will
the mysterious and little knowr
force.
Struggle With Neptune.
Viewed in the perspective, the de
velopment and growth of the infan
science was attended with incident:
as interesting and romantic as the
radio art itself-especially with re-
| spect to its application to the mari.
time domain.
| We might, in fact. fancifully re.
! gard it in the light of a struggle be
tween radio and Neptune. with the
latter resenting the invasion of hi:
| domain by the former.
| Radios first actual maritime serS.
ice in the world was rendered to The
cause of sport. 1t provided the me
dium through which the events of th1
! kingstown regatta at Dublin Weri
| reported 10 tne Duplln DdiiS ENpreSS
| the steamer Flying Huntress having
been equipped with radio for thil
| purpose, reports Of the races havinf
! been wirelessed from this vessel from
July 20 to %, 1898. i
Thus. to modern journalism may hS
attributed the honor of inauguratini
communication service by radio il
, the world.
! Radios next exploit was in the
| service of royalty. 1t consisted in
providing for sixteen days from
August of the same year. me-
dunn of communication betu the
| royal yacht Osborne at sea and ..ady-
wood Cottage at Osborne. in order