Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
INTIMATE "CLOSE- UP" OF MAROON
AND HIS $1,000, 900 WORKSHOP
Has Worlds Most Complete
Wireless Equipment-Can
Send Messages Half Way
Across Atlantic
BY Capt. Robert Scofield Wood,
ID. r. c.. NJ. c.. II. A. r.

from every corner Of the world, from
the trim, graceful, steam-lined speed
sters, common to the international
sporting fraternity. down to the
square-rigged, he. y-topped Chi
nese junks, have dropped anchor in
the port of New York. But since
Hndrick Hudson sailed his Half
| Moon to an anchorage under the
shadows of the Palisades no ship
has created qnite the sensation or
interest as has the Electra, the
private wireless laboratory" yacht
Of Senatore Marconi, the genius Of
an age Of unparalleled development.
This remarkable yacht lies in the
| Hudson riv7r at the foot Of Eighty
Sixth street, riding gracefully at it's
mooring several hundred feet off the
| floats Of the Columbia Yacht club.
Two huge masts reach over a hun.
dred feet into the air, sunporting a
netwo~'- of aerials md antennas Of
every known type from the most eff
ficient cages for transmitting pur
poses to the single wire antenna on
which the feeble impulses Of radio
concerts are received and carried
down to the most completely
equipped laboratory in existence.
The proper way to enter this labo.
ratory, in which a million dollars
worth Of equipment has been in.
stalled, is hardly by way of the en-
tenna lead-in, but disregarding the
manner of entrance let us look over
| this unparalleled combination of in
| struments that hos contributed SO
largely to the science which the
world is calling by it's first name
radio"
| Night af or - rest
of the world is in dreamland, and
even now while on his so-called va
cation to America, Marconi, sur
| rounded by his engine "~d assist
ants. labors long and tirelessly in
the radio room of his floating ex.
perimental station.
| AS we entered the c, '''> It pre-.
scented a very worklike appearance,
and from the loose apparatus that
was lying on the table in the center
| of the room it was evident that Mar
conf had recently been at work on
some new development which he
freely admitted but the nature Of
which he was reluctant to touch
upon.
Best i'm World
The apparatus is composed Of the
best of every known make brought
from the four corners of the world.
America radio appliances, mingle in
perfect harmony with Italian, Eng
lish and Germany, beyond any
Vestige of a doubt that, in SO far
as science is concerned, scientist
is absolutely devoid of all sentiment.
The transmitting panel Of the
pew erful continuous wave transmit
ted on which SO many experiments
have been successfully brought to
a conclusion, shows none Of the
marks Of it's long usage, and, stand
| ing idly in the corner, does not i'm
, press one with it's tremendous pow
ers of throwing a vibration carrying
the load Of human voice superirn-
posed upon it half way across the
! Atlantic ocean.
Second in Importance in the line of
recent experiments is the direction
finder, which works in conjunction
with the large loop aerial. This in
strument using two steps of radio
frequency amplification, a detector,
and two steps of audio frequency
qualification which has been de-
veloped by the genius himself, is
considered to be the greatest aid to
navigators that has yet been de-
vised, excepting, of course, his re-
! Gently developed radio beacon, which
has just been presented to the
world and has not had time to be
| generally applied to marine work.
However, this direction finder, which
is a comparatively recent contribu.
ton to the shipping interests, has
been carried forward almost with
the speed Of the electromagnetic
wave Of $4,000 miles second, and
today forms part Of the coastal
| equipment Of every civilized nation
of the world. Our own coast sup
ports thorugh the efforts of the
navy department forty-three land
stations which daily assist hundreds
Of ships equipped with the direction
finder to ascertain their exact ioca.
ton. -
| Without exception this instrument
is the only which has added the
greatest factor of safety to naviga-
ton since the invention Of the COM
pass by the Orientals centuries be-
fore the Christian era. Ships can
now proceed in perfect safety in
the most dense fogs and can be p1.
loted to an anchorage without fear
of running aground under the most
unfavorable weather conditions.
| The man who has made all these
things possible, radios master, Ser
ator Guglielmo Marconi, to whom
| goes the undisputed credit Of first
discovering and demonstrating the
worth Of that indispensable some
thing, wireless, has at last paid us
his Compromised visit. The story
Of his life has been told and retold
and his name is household word
the world over, so we will waste no
time in redressing an old story.
Interview Begins
| Wireless experiments, as he de.
scribes them, appear to be a work
a-day matter to the famous Old
World genius of the air, yet yelled
behind the low but incisive tones
of his voice lies an appreciation of
the romantic nature of his activi-
ties in a world all it's own, a friend.
ly universe to him obviously, despite
the cold unresponsiveness of the
ethereal something that daily serves
his every whim.
Radio is a new science, opening
up field of endeavor that none of
US has the vision to foresee, and be.
ing new science it has to be han.
died in little different way from
any other. That, I suppose, is what
you want to hear about?'
Thus opened an interview that !
had intended to conduct (but didn't
when I had finally passed through
the formalities Of arranging to see
the senator on board the Electra
and had found him on the forward
deck luxuriously reclining in spa.
cious wicker arm chair in the shade
of an awning and enjoying the rug.
ged magnificepce Of the palisades
The question answered itself as