Mr J. C. H. Macbeth the London manager of the Marooni Wireless Telegraph Company, startled a luncheon assembly at New York by the description of recent Wireless experiments aboard the Marconi yacht idectra 'u the Mediterranean, which led Mr Marconi and. other experts to believe that Mats or some other planet was seeking to communicate Tviti the world. Mr Macbeth said the apparatus intercepted wireless wave lengths of 150,000 metres,' whereas the maximum wave length produced in the world to-day i? 14,000 metres. He said the regularity of the wave lengths disproved the belief that it was due to electrical disturbances.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17291, 1 November 1921, Page 9
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