The New York herald., 1922-06-17
Pioneer Will Not Say He
Hears Mars, but Finds
Outside Waves.
HIGH SPEEDS DEVELOPED
Encouragement of Herald
in Experimenter's Early
Days Recalled.

The day Is fairly near when the sub
marine cable will be added to the junk
pile of discovery and invention. it's
place taken by the wireless which will
loop the whole earth in a flash and
cheaply enough for anybody's pocket.
So says Marconi, pioneer of wire
less, as he comes to the United States
once more to demonstrate to our elec-
trical engineers some Of the new in
struments he has perfected for high
speed sending and receiving, for vastly
lengthening the projection of the
human mind and. perhaps most i'm
portant of all, for exercising that spe-
cial devil Of the wireless craft, static.
1t is an extremely practical and an
entirely scientific and matter of fact
Marconi who returns to a radio hum
cry country, to tell of new marvels
of electricity. He looks about as much
like an inventor. anyway. as does
President Harding or J. p. Morgan;
much more resembling a lawyer,
banker or editor, than tie Senator that
he is.
Nor does he look as IL he had wasted
time worth about a thousand dollars
an hour. as nearly as 1t can be calcu-
lated, in trying to get TIE ear of the
switchboard on Mars. Such romantic
tinkering Guglielmo Marconi leaves to
that excellent Flammarion, he tells
one. He himself is much too busy
with the earth and it's fifty mile thick
air envelope, he laughs. to go prowl-
ing about in the unexplored ether Of
the infinite.
"Messages From Another World"
Mention Of Mars causes smile to
flicker over Marconis amiable face-to
be followed almost Immediately by the
puckered brow of perplexity. smile
at the notion Of his having seriously
tried to flash a message to the red
planet. or to receive one; a frown at
the recollection of that 10000 meter
phenomenon which stumps him to this
day and which occasionally steals his
mind from concentration, try as he
will. for there is the dreamer deep in
Marconi. as there has been In every
great inventor that ever lived.
1t was in the wireless room OF his
big yacht Elettra. his sea home and
workshop. that he talked yesterday
about the general mystery of sparkling
human thought around the curve of the
world, and. incidentally, about the al
ways enthralling puzzle of who or what
may live out on the other worlds float
ing i'm ether
you ask me II attempted any ex-
periments in the way of trying to COM
municate with Mars" he said. "Of
course not. Considerable nonsense has
been printed about such a possibility.
1t is true that while experimenting last
winter intercepted what certainly ap-
peared to be an unintelligible message
projected in 10000 meter wave lengths.
that gave me start. The
earth knows no such wave length. 1t
was indeed, an unearthly thing.
II do not believe that any man pro-
jected message could be so changed or
distorted by electrical disturbance. No.
/ am strongly OF the opinion that II
was a veritable communication from
outside but whether 1t came from
Mars or Venus or the sun I know not"
america Leads World I'm Radio"
when will our earthly wireless In
struments reach stage perfected
enough to seek communication with
our little brothers and sisters of the
solar SYSTEM"
sgnor Marconi shrugged n pair OF
expressive shoulders, and
the gesture accompanying the shrug.
extended arms. palms Of the hands up.
was as good as hundred words.
LET us come down to earth" he
smiled. "It Is interesting enough for
the present. We are moving rapidly
in wireless science. so swiftly that once
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