SicNor Marcoyt recently landed in Liverpool, An observant reporter recorded the fact that there was a smile on his face. There was reason for it. The "wireless wizard" was fresh from an achievement which, till his day, had never been dreamt: of. In mid-ocean, at one and the same time, he had been in communication with the United States and Great Britain. Nearly 2,000 miles from the nearest land he had received the latest news from America while in constant communication with his station in Great Britain. Daily bulletins were printed on the Lucania for the benefit of the passengers who, as if on shore, got the latest information served up with their matutinal coffee and rolls. One lady on board received a private message when more than a thousand miles distant from the sending station. Political items were frequent, og.: "The general opinion here is that Balfour missed his opportunity to rehabilitate the character of the government." When 1,500 miles distant a complete synopsis of Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal proposals was received. At 1,700 miles various other messages arrived, and as the Lucania was then in communication with the opposite shore there was established " Hoating link in this wireless chain binding the two worlds together. Such a thing had never happened before, fortunately for its inventor. We should -not like to have been in Mr. Marconi's shoes had he succeeded in doing this sort of thing when orthodoxy ruled the world. Short shrift or prompt recantantion of his science "falsely so called," as his. enemies would have to meet asserted, would have been his lot.
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