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Show MARCONI TELLS OF NEW ACHIEVEMENT IN WIRELESS PHONE t ROME. May 17. Wireless telephone tele-phone communication over a distance dis-tance of 500 miles with apparatus of a strength of only three kilowatts kilo-watts has been achieved by Will-lam Will-lam Marconi, the Italian Inventor, he announced here upon his return re-turn from a cruise In the Atlantic and Mediterranean on board the yact Elcctra. Slgnor Marconi said he regarded this as a greater great-er success than speaking with a stronger apparatus for a distance of one thousand -miles, which has been attained. Another experiment carried out on board the Electra Wa3 the use of a "radio gonometer," with tho aid of which is was possible to navigate to Cape Finitcrne in , the midst of a heavy fog. Slgnor Marconi .said the radio gonometer made it possible to approach within a very short distance of tho rocks without danger. |