Transatlantic Wireless Telegraphy

Abstract

THE announcement of the successful inauguration of the Transatlantic wireless telegraphic system which we were able to make last week must have come as welcome news to all, but hardly as a surprise to those who have followed with any closeness Mr. Marconi's persevering experiments. Those who have done so and who have seen how, in almost every instance, Mr. Marconi has achieved all that he has said he would achieve can hardly have doubted that in this case, also he would be successful. And when once it had been demonstrated that Hertz waves were capable of bridging the enormous distance from the Old World to the New, it was evidently only a matter of time to instal suitable stations on both sides of the Atlantic and to put them in operation. Nevertheless, the greatest interest attaches to the transmission of the first messages; one cannot help feeling that it is an historic occasion, not only marking an era in the development of wireless telegraphy, but also forging another link between this country and her colonies, and adding yet one more to the many benefits helping forward. civilisation which science has conferred on mankind.