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Show WIRELESS MESSAGES ARE ! NOW RECEIVED BY SOUND Marconi Discards the Tape: and Makes Use of the . v Morse Signals in His Work. BOSTON, Jan. 21. "Do' you employ the same telegraphic characters used In the cabling of dispatches that is, the code without space letters?" wad asked Signor Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph. "No; we use the Morse code, the same as your telegraphers in this country employ In the transmission of business." - ' "And the characters appear-on paper tape, the same as the old-fashioned Morse registers?" , . . "Not at all. We are receiving our messages by sound." ' " "By sound?" . "Yes. I see the information is somewhat startling, but we were able to lay aside the tape method awhile ago, and now all messages are read from the public pub-lic stations made on the drum of a telephone receiver. Just now we are able to send some few words faster than we can receive. Thirty-five words In a minute can be accomplished with the (able head apparatus, and when I have given the Poldhu station some little attention, thirty-five words a minute will be the average aver-age speed for regular business." - . |