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Few events in the world's history have had such far-reaching, effects, and effects which intimately concern the daily life of, literally, millions of mankind the discovery of wireless te graphy. This word must be held to include speech—transmitted. by wireless, for in 1880) Mr. Justice Stephen decided that telephony was a branch of telegraphy and since that date fall telephones in Britain are used under licence from the Postmaster General. Inline with this decision is the Government's action in establishing the British Broadcasting Corporation to take over the business of the former B. B.C. and be the national broadcasting organization for the whole country. As early as 1846 Clerk-Maxwell, lone of the greatest mathematic-geniuses that ever lived, deduced from purely theoretical reasoning, that it would be possible to set up electrical waves the ether. These are none other than the wireless waves of to-day. In 1887, Hertz, a German physicist, succeeded for the first time in producing! such waves and twenty-five years later the Italian wizard, Marconi, flashed his wireless message across the Atlantic and a_ new, era in the world's transmission of news was begun, Wireless is thus based on the researches of some of the acute est minds ever bestowed on man devoted to the severest study of, mathematical science. And yet, the results of these _researches jate so easily applied that schoolboys, with a few coppers' worth
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