An electric signal has been flashed across the Atlantic Ocean without the use of a conducting wire. To this achievement, the prophecy of wonders to come in electrical communication, the world owes its thanks to Signor Guglielmo Marconi, a youth now of but twenty-six years.
The Marconi system of wireless telegraphy has, as known, is been the subject of experiment and development on the part of its discoverer for. only some five years. Within a very recent time results have been so favourable as to encourage him to try his long-hoped plan of transmitting a sign across the ocean. A Marconi station was already established at Poldhu, Cornwall, England, where tall, slender poles gave the visible evidence of its character. To reach the nearest practi able point on this side of the ocean, Marconi journeyed to Newfoundland and there rigged a temporary apparatus, using kites to carry his wires to the desired elevation. Things being ready, the Com-wall station was instructed by cable to repeat at frequent. intervals during certain hours of certain days the telegraphic svmbol' for the letter S, consisting cof three short dashes.
This was done, and a week ago last Thursday the sional was plainly recorded on the receiving instruments in New-found land. That the symbol was actually received thera is no doubt in this country. Marconi himself asserts it without qualification and the foremost elec tricians in the country have expressed themselves satisfied as to the genuineness of the result.
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