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Show I RADIO WIZARD I POTS TRUST i I U. S. AMATEURS Marconi Thinks American Youths Will Score Next Discovery LAUGHS ABOUT MARS Ingenious Dutch Find Use for Radio Phone in Dispatching News BY Mil TON f.KoNNJ K CCopyrliht. t22 bJ -.vf" LONDON, April 16. "America has more amateur wtrt-lo-s operators and owners than any other country. VUth so many youngstcis growmg up wrtn wireless, they will develdp d1 to improve it and 10 widen lla Bbop.e. That moans America maj xpected in add widelv in the next SO years lo our knowledge and use of wire- u leas." The speaker was 'he WfXHrfl of si, Wireless the Ruler ol Radio himself, 'r Ghigllejino Marconi a senator of Italy decorated b sovereigns and honored by universale" becauAi he is the one "who more than anj Other brought the boon of wireless o mankind. man-kind. On April 2b Marconi will be 48. Marconi House. London, is a wizards wiz-ards den. In Marconi's office you sec all kind- of wireless apparatus, in his laboratories researchers are a; work. And in on.- black-walled room an operator presses button, turns lever, and you hear wireless waves zizzing to all quarters oi the globe. PICTURE or M RCOM The Wizard hlmeslf 'Is w.ll- groomed smooth-shaven, black-haired, affable, with a decided sense of humor. , , , It is Impossible. ' he said, 'to predict pre-dict how far wireless may be developed devel-oped In the next few years. There !s apparently no limit. Today we an send messages i 100 miles from London to Australia and that is about the greatest distance dis-tance you can get between practtc-j .Via nnlnti nn this clobe. "Wireless telephony between Europe Eu-rope and America is technically possible pos-sible right now But It would require re-quire a very high electric power Which would make it ery expensive. "Experiments are being made looking look-ing toward the manufacture of tel.--,hnni. instruments which would not require such high power. That w ill j cut l be cost of operation "The practicability of wireless tele- phony is proved beyond question. "Last summer sitting in my wire-1 lesw room in my yatch in Italian I waters, I talked with London and Spain. TALKING ACROSS OCl.W ben the radiphone is further developed, it will give International business men. bankers, and dlplo-l mats the advantage of direct contact Pu'i ncl direct speech. It would be far more satisfactory! i nan cabled messages or than letters i 1 You must never overlook the Impor tant personal clement that enters Into Victual conversation, as against ' .. old cables or letters The most interesting everyday use uinb-s telephony in the world is ,n Holland The smallness of the country, the density of its popula- .on t li o wealth and world -Interests Of its business men have made pra tlcabb- and profitable the set vice we; t'lil have set up there. lirl "Every da In Amsterdam a young man picks up the telephone and ' reads Into it th latest Amsterdam tot k quotations and the financial news of the world as received there About 150 persons in banks. busln s houses shipping offices' and .stock brokers agencies all over Holland 'nave I he wireless telephone receiver to their ears and get this message simultaneously. "Eerybody who takes this service gels an even break. "Also" every day in Amsterdam a' young man reads Into lhc radio! phono an entire newspaper news ser-j vice to 40 newspaper offices all over Holland. "Wo have demonstrated also the easy feasibility of wireless telephony j between London and Holland. "While it "fs possible to listen In. the cost of doing so would be almost prohibitive. Besides, methods are being be-ing perfected which will go far to making this extremely difficult." s 'How about Mars?" the Wizard was asked. Marconi laughingly replied. "That report about my trying to talk with Mars arose from the brain of a very Imaginative person. L ' "All 1 ever have, Bald was that it times in working on wireless, ome aware of waves, of electrical disturbances that come trom no traceable source. "We don't know what causes them All we know Is that they make themselves them-selves manifest They certainly do not give us the license to believe thai i hoy come from Mars or any oth' r planet. "Certainly wo don't know enough' about them to spend a lot of moirBy I in trying to trace them on the theory i hat they coine from intelligent be-1 ings living on another planet."' |