| Show sm MARGONIS FEAT Italian Inventor Sending Telegraph Messages Without Wire + ACROSS THE NORTH SEA LONDON TS PRINTS TH FST WIRELESS DISPATCH 1 I Complete Success of the Wireless System I Demonstrated Messages Mes-sages Easily Transmitted a Di tance of Thrtto MilesOper ate I all Kinds of Weather o London March 2Guglelmo arconi the inventor who recently after long delay de-lay obtained permission from the French government to establish a statm on the French coast for the purpose of eperl menUng wit wireless telegraphy between t England and Fran announces that he has conducted successful experiments between be-tween the South Foreland county of Ken and Boulogne at the mouth oC the Lianre The TIme this morning prints a 10 word dispatch the first press message ly the 1arconi system of wireless telegraphy teleg-raphy describing the experiments be tween the South Foreland and Bouooe The experiments were conducted with tho More code which was read as distinctly distincty as if the termini had ben connected with connet wires wih Ihe South Foreland is the most eatorly land in England consisting of a haky cliff about 200 feet In height projecting prNc lng Into the North sea and having two ghc houses with an elevation of 3j2 feet Signor larcon1s system of wireless telegrph has been in practlcai operation practcal operaton off the English cost for several months between the South Forehand lighthouse I and the East GoowIn light ship a dls tance of twelve miles the distance from South Foreland light house to BoulogneSurMer Is thirytwo miles the greatest previous distance cv ever having ben eighteen miles between Poole and Bouremouth in England n experience of fourteen months had shown him that no kind of weather would stop the working of his apparatus The ver tial conductor he used is the main lea ture of his system and he has round that distance to which s1gals may he sent varies according to the square or the length of this conductor or igi1ng eighteen miles he used a conductor eighty feet high and in his application to M Locko he contended that with a conductor con-ductor 11 feet high he could establish communication between points on oppOsite sides of the strait of Dover and even go that distance ten miles better I His experiments have already prove that when such a vertical wire or con ductor Is employcd no hibdrance to sig nailing is caused by his or other obstacles ob-stacles or by the curvature of the earth One of his most interesting and valuable experiments was the installation titled up last autumn between Osborne House Isle of Wight and the royal yacht on irhich the Prince of Wales was recuperating alter his accident This gave an tppor amity to study the effect of intervening hills and as the yacht moved about to various positions doubts were set it rest as to the possibility of telegraphing CCo5c long stretches of land Communication between lightships and shore Is a matter of great importance and the wireless sys tern between South Foreland lighthouse and East Goodwin light ship worked through the fiercest storms of the latter part of February without interruption the messages being flashed continually from ship to shore and vice versa Signor Marconi is much the most suc eessful experimenter among The many who have worked along the same lnes He is now in his 26th year He is an Italian and it was in Italy that he began his special work The Italian government paid him a large sum of money for his invention to be used on warships From Italy he went to Eagland and his sue cess there has already interested Emperor William who hps instructed German cx ports In experiment with the wireless sys tern for the benefit of the German army and navy Be recently illustrated the prieiple of his system by likening t to that upon which t tuning work will respond re-spond to vibrations caused by striking another an-other tuning fork near it |
