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Show I WIRELESS INVENTED eY AN AMERICAN. We hae been crediting Marconi with having first successfully operated wireless communication, but Henrj Ford, in his Dearborn Independent, cives credit for t lie discovery tr a dentist den-tist In Washington. I. C. and givea thia recital of experiment made as early as 186. Had it not been for the attitude of bis newspapers, and the stubbornness stub-bornness and lack "i vision of'con-crcss. of'con-crcss. this country today would be enjoying the honor, distinction and credit of presenting wireless teles-raphy teles-raphy to the world The name of this comparatively comparative-ly unknown inventive genius is Malilon Looniis. Back In the sixties and seventies seven-ties he eked out a modest liing by plugging the defective molars and making "store" ir. ; h tor the politicians and social leaders of Washington. Dr. Loom is called his discover "aerial telegraphy." His first public demonstration was made in 1S66 from th two peaks of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia, some eighteen miles apart. From each peak an ordinary kite was elevated, connected with an Insu lated copper wire attached at the lower end to a telegraphing apparatus. appa-ratus. The operators of each party par-ty were provided with telescopes with which they could sight from one station to the other mid read the signals. When all was In readiness, readi-ness, a message was sent by the doctor along e wire of his kite, and was received at the station on the other mountain top Just as though the two kites had been connected with a wire in the ordinary or-dinary way. In this manner communications com-munications were kept up until the fact was thoroughly demonstrate I ed that telegraphing could be I done as readily without as with I connecting wires I Shortly thereafter Dr. Looniis I made a successful experiment in communicating between vessels This demonstration took place on Chesapeake bay. The vessels were stationed about two miles apart. On each vessel was a tele-I tele-I graphic apparatus. A wire was at- I tached to the instrument and one I end thrown into the water at a I moderate demh Innlhor nisiilnf. Ied wire of much greater length1 was let down to a greater depth into a colder stratum of watei The two strata of water of differ ent temperatures thus connected to the same battery made a complete com-plete circuit and enabled communications com-munications to pass between the two vessels without other connections. connec-tions. The experiment was a success. suc-cess. Laying claim to "wireless." America can assert leadership in nearly all the great inventions of the past half century. cen-tury. The telephone, electric light, trollev line, phonograph, trans Atlantic cable, flying machine, torpedo, submarine rapid-fire pun. cotton ,?in. modern war ship, gas engine, automobile, and oth Ir inventions were from American brains. In inventive genius, America I nas iea tne woria tor mop- man nan 1 jjentury, and now aerial communica-tion communica-tion is to br added to the list of I achievements, if the record quoted 1 above is accepted. Of course. Mar com niu&t be recognized as the man 1 who gave us wireless as a commercial Success, which, alter all, is the real tr-M. j |