Show MARCONIS MARCONI'S LAURELS ARE PLUCKED BY SCIENTISTS SCIENTISTS' Wise Vise Men Meet and Declare He Is Not Inventor of oi Wireless s Telegraphy Only a Clever Adapter J NEW YORK Feb 6 A A cablegram cablegram from Paris Puis says A remarkable session of ot the te Academy of Science has bras been devoted to the discussion of the origin o ot of wireless telegraphy If It Marconi had been present he would have felt much annoyed for a among the many French savants assembled or the English and Germa German experts whose communications were read none was disposed to credit him with the dIscovery disco but they seemed to regard res-ard him as only a Clever practical experimenter 1 According g to the document produced t the e real Inventors ni are Feddersen ani and Maxwell Maxwell- both Englishmen then Hertz of Germany but principally Pro Prof Branly Dranly a a- Frenchman 1 who conceived and constructed in 1890 1800 the receiver for electric waves which is still used by Marconi and next Prof Proto Lodge an Englishman English English- man who read a paper before the Electric congre congress of 1894 pointing out the possibility of transmitting telegraphic signals with the Hertz apparatus and receiving receiving re re- re them with the Branly Branly- tube of metal metallic Jc fillings which possibility wa was actually put into practice by a Russian scientist named in 1856 Marconis Marconi's experiments only began in 1899 1893 it is said and were first mad madd public two years ago simultaneously with successful wireless transmission transmission trans trans- mission of tele telegrams ams over aver a distance of miles in Germany by an altogether different apparatus It was further asserted that most of Marconis Marconi's patents are worthless owing to the foregoing alleged facts f Finally it was pol pointed ted out that neither the French nor the German army nor the English navy the Marconi system though results are obtained 1 equal to his exploits except the transmission across the ocean which the scientists tI ls unanimously declared is yet unproved |