Unfortunately, further experimenting has been for the time checked by the action of the Anglo-American Cable Company, which, having a monopoly in the colony of transmitting telegraphic messages, has served an injunction upon the inventor. forbidding further experiments. Should this injunction be maintained Marconi plans to transfer his seat of operations to Nova Scotia or to the Massachusetts coast, where a station on Cape Cod is already established.
Marconi is half English by birth and wholly Enelish by adoption. He has made his residence in England, his mother's country. since 1898. It was, however, while he was a student at Bologna University, Italy. that he conceived the idea on which his system is based. It is said that his discovery. made while studying electrical phenomena. was almost accidental. This was in 1805, The next rear the first ercoasefil tacts were made, ha tween Penarth and Weste. and in 1897 the vou ne sei first announced his system.
He had demonstrated the possibility of signalling without wires by moans of the Flrtzian waves before he Inft Ttaly, bue not until he reached England did anyone show much interest in him. For ten years more, Mr. Preece. then at the hand of the teloaranhic donarrment of the British Postal cence. had hoon warkin the problem of wiralece telorranhe. hut he had employed a camemhat different prin. cinle from that of the vanne Ttalian snd secured lose remarkable recnite With splendid generosity. he nramntly recoc-1 nised the superior merit of Marconi's plan and gare him material aid. in developing the new system.
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