Taking up the suggestions mathematically made by the Scottish wrangler, Clerk well and the laboratory discoveries of electromagnetic waves by the German physicist. Heinrich Hertz, the late Marchese Guglielmo Marconi by his inventive genius and scientific knowledge was enabled to make to the world the beneficent gift of wireless communication. To-day the news of his [death strikes a note of personal loss Jin the of all nations, for minds broad ca universal instrument of communication is one of the latest and most spectacular of the developments from his wireless syslem. Those who met him personally not so long ago when he visited Shanghai will testify to the mode: "ud versatility of his mind. Hi rvofessional associations with Great Britain to which the Postmaster-General has so appropriately alluded in conveying condolences to the Italian ulster of Communications and his Irish descent on his mother's side made him a valuable bulwark of Anglo-Italian understanding. The point is well taken just at this moment when signs of an approach to repair of that understanding are being welcomed both in London and in Rome. The speeding up of communications, whatever cynics harassed diplomats may be tempted occasionally to say, is a real asset to human progress. - As the "Father of Modern Wireless" Marconi made an outstanding contribution to its development. His memory has the grateful tribute of the entire world in consequence,
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