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A chief engineer of or orthe J 1 tho the Marconi wireless plants In this country has discovered a ft now law of o nature and mado rondo wireless s a a. perfect means of or communication Ills His Invention invention In cn tion lIun removes tho Interference of or static the presence of oC uncontrolled electricity In tho air which heretofore has garbled messages Into gibberish man many hours a day and a largo large part of or ortho tho the year car Static was as troublesome to wireless wireless wire wire- less Jess telegraphy as tho buzzing used wire wire-I to tobe tobe tobe telephone Tho The be on tho long distance Invention prevents by hy a selective system 55 1 tern tem the crossing of ot wireless mes messages ases regardless of oC the tho operation n of or an any number of or stations reduces the tho amount of or power needed to half making a aper GO GOper GOper per cent In saving fuel substitutes for forthe tho the expensive high steel masts receiving receiving ing antennae stretched but tut a few feet feel above e tho ground So Important Is the Invention regarded regard regard- ed that Edward J. J Nally vice vico president president president dent and general manager of ot tho the Marconi Marconi Mar Mar- coni Wireless Ireless Telegraph Company of or orI I America said that with tho the exception of the Invention of or the system itself It was tho most vitally Important In inthe tho the history of or wireless wireless' telegraphy raph Marconi Invented In the wireless said Mr Nally and Mr has perfected perfected pert per per- t It Mr Ir Nally ally said Vea ant really discovered discovered dis dis- covered a new law of ot nature hen When Mr Ir Marconi was over here a year ear ago ho examined Mr Ir work very verj er carefully and became enthusiastic over O It He lie said that showed the I most remarkable intuition of any man man he had ever known And nd nd now because of or Mr invention It U is possible to send wireless wireless wireless wire wire- less messages agos every word of or which goes clearly and distinctly into tho the re receiver receiver receiver re- re without interference any at tho the marvelous rate of or words a minute by tho the duplex duplec system that is on what might be bo called tho the same amo circuit messages mes sages at that rato rate may be bo sent and received Mr is slight of or figure and all about C Ii feet 10 10 Inches tall He Jia haS had light brown hair and a a. broad domelike dome dome- lIko like brow under which are arc set deeply gray eyes eres Tho The thin taco face Is almost grave and he has tho the chin that indicates determination and a fine Une sensitive son sen en- en mouth He Ho was born In Morrisburg Ontario Canada In 1881 When hen he was still a n achild achild child his parents moved to Vt Just across cross the Canadian border One of or the tho neighbors was a retired physician who was interested In telegraphy raphy and had a private line lino running from his home to that of a friend a considerable distance awa away This apparatus apparatus apparatus ap ap- ap- ap Interested oung young greatly The Tho physician learned of or the Interest made the boys boy's acquaintance and encouraged him in his desire to learn more moro about telegraphy and elec olec- t nc I ty When hen ho he was as old enough ho was sent to Stanstead college Stanstead Quebec and later to McGill l university lt Montreal Montreal Mon Mon- treal from which he lie was graduated In 1905 with tho degree of or electrical en- en Ho lie took a special courso course In ph physics under Sir Ernest and got sot his first Important job with tho Montreal Electric Light Heat Power company compan Later he wont to the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing l company of ot Pittsburgh and then to lo the tho theDo I Ir r De Do Laval Steam Turbine company In InC C 1912 ho he entered the service of the Marcon Marconi Mar lIar con coni company In speaking of or Mr orr Invention tion Uon Edward J. J Nally said that a steel to tower er at nt an any of ot tho the stations of tho the company costs about to lo con con- Tho The company has fourteen stations sta sta- Mr Invention will I make it unnecessary r for the company ever to build another steel receiving station And I would not bo be surprised surprised sur stir Mr Nail Nally said l If there was never another ocean cable laid The Tho Yea ant system 5 was placed ph at atthe tho the disposal of or tho the government so and the tho nR navy department c cd operated In installing in- in stalling experimental stations These stations are aro now receiving Ins messages from all the high power stations of or ortho tho the world is tall and thin and stooped from much bending over Induction coils colls and such Static you OU know Inow sal said Mr Wea Wea- gant la is tho tIm most exasperating electrical elec clec- manifestation there thero is In a wireless receiver rec It 11 sounds sometimes like a n. handful of ot pebbles thrown a against a window sometimes It is a acra cra crashing nol e. e sometimes rasping or scratching or er squealing For twenty years oars rS wireless sa engineers have been trying try try- ing Irig to get rid of ot It Many Ian of or them have hare given ghen the thing thinS up as Impossible Tho The trouble is at Its maximum from June to October r but eer every day It starts to set got bad about noon and lasts until sunrise In the tropics It Is perpetual l being aggravated by the suns sun's heat and evaporation of uC moisture Every lint lino of ot approach to the problem problem lem pro to bo ho wrong wrong- Tho The trouble was that all the Investigators In looked upon static as ns one ono of natures nature's na na- na- na turo's ture's few freaks freak something somethIng- that I couldn't bo controlled that was without without with with- out or reason renson I 1 came to lo the conclusion that there thero must be some law of or nat nature ro that hall had hadnot not been beell discovered Everything E olse Jise In nature was wag rational this must be I rational too So all I 1 did wa was to set setout setout setout out to discover the new law of or nature and make it work for tOI man and that's I nil all I have lu done I Ilot I sot lot ot up all sorts of ot hypotheses and constructed all ull sorts torts oCr of oC r apparatus when one ono theory theor would not work worle I 1 tried another n ho he said paid the North Atlantic which has ben been the hardest to bridge by bv because of static conditions con condi l- l ions is now ens easy euW Before the war wo we were limited to six or soven lIu hours I communication a n day across th the Atlantic Atlantic Atlan Atlan- J I tic and md across the mile mlle stretch from rom San S-an Francisco to Japan Now ow we WC can cn use uso the wireless Ireless continuously Before Before Be Be- fore ore the war it would have ha been Impossible impossible impossible im Im- possible to g not get t. t all nil the news which the German less tried to scatter over the tile world Now ow we can get it St allI allI allI all I am not privileged to say to what extent our discovery ely has figured In tho the war but I can cau sa say In a general wn way that almost everything c tho the Germans sent fent out bearing on tho the question of o peace was received Old Did Germany German 1 know 00 about bout your dis lis discoveries erles co be before r the war ended ended- c Highly Improbable Is your our device also 1110 applicable t to wireless telephony Yes n Will it extend the use uso of the wireless wireless wire wire- less telephone f fI i I l should think sod so volunteered that the new law of or nature may have an nn important relation to weather phenomena lIe Ho lIeI I said he had noted approaching changes In the tho weather be before Core tho the government o bureau did did changes changes In atmospheric pressure n and J even Men in tho the direction of tho tim wind far from the tho sp spot t. t where ho hoj j sat at with tho the wireless r receiver colver clamped on his hits head bead I |
