Some mysterious agency appears to be at work assisting man in his efforts to flash his thoughts by wireless through the ether.
In recent years scientists have been puzzling over the fact that tha received wireless signals at distances of @,000 to 12,000 miles are many thousands, or even millions, of time stronger than could be accounted for by the pure bending of waves round the earth.
The problem formed part of the subject of the "Trueman Wood" lecture before Senator Marconi and a distinguished audience at the Royal Society of Arts. Lectwing on "The Coming of Age of Long-distance Wireless Telegraphy," Profeseor J. A. Fleming, of University College, London, the brilliant scientist and inventor, discussed the question of how waves travel round the earth.
He stated that the length of waves mostly used for long-distance work la about 10 miles, but they travel thousands of miles, and it is possible for all large' radio stations at the present time! to communicate with their antipodes,
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