Paris, Mar. 25.
M. Edouard Branly, 92-year-old inventer whom the French credit with having perfected the first wireless transmitting and receiving set, died today.
Born in Amiens on October 23, 1846, and despite his undoubted invention of the principles of wireless telegraphy, he passed most of his long life in relative obscurity as a modest professor of physics, and recognition came to him publicly only during the last years.
Tt was in 1885 in his garret laboratory in the anti-quated Catholic University of Paris that M. Branly first observed the effect of an electric spark on a closed circuit. In 1890 and 1891 Branly made this discovery the subject of papers read Paris. before the Academy of Sciences in
In 1895 Signor Marconi completed his treatise on wireless telegraphy, and like M. Branly, unable to pro Cure suitable laboratory facilities at home, he went to England for experimentation. In 1999 Sig. Marconi succeeded in sending his first wireless messages from England to France and one of his first messages read approximately as follows: "Marconi send to M. Branly his respectful com-piiments across the Channel, these excellent results being due in part to the remarkable work of M. Branly.'
French Scientist Ignored Later a banquet was given in Sig. Mareoni's honour in Paris near the Gare St. Lazaro, and M. was invited and sat opposite Sig. Marconi, though the occasion. was not commented on in the press M. Branly nevertheless has consistently maintained that Sig. Marconi was a great scientist and spoke of the Italian always in the highest terms, declaring it was Sig. Marconi who applied the principle telegraphically, and to whom should go the honour of perfecting wireless telegraphy.
M. Branly's invention, which has made millions for others, hardly realized for himself more than a miserable pittance, Working in physics at the Sorbonne, the young inventor complained of the paucity of laboratory materials. He even lacked a helper to rig his experiments. Being invited to go to the Catholic University at an increased salary and where a helper would aid him, he accepted. It was. this abrupt desertion of the Sorbonne that perhaps did most to keep M. Branly's name from the more brilliant constellation of French scientists in the Academy, since the professorial hierarchy was loath to forgive him for the change—United Press.
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