WWES GUGLIELMO MARCONI—the son of an IrishSjg was born at Bologna in 1874. Twenty years later Oliver Lodge demonstrated: that signals could 4>£?#g mitted without wires by the agency of Hertxiintm f (first produced in the ether by Herts in 1887-pM two years elapsed when in 1896 Marconi evolved of transmitting and receiving these> wavesto distance of a few hundred yards. ''^ In 1899 Marconi's first communication was the English Channel, and in 1901 he spanned the Attat Now . ... Commander Byrd when in the AntarctM able to keep in hourly touch with America. ■■'■',jz'M ■'...■'■•■ t' ***il ■■■''.■' .Sw£ When in 1896 Marconi evolved a method of trans- /| mitting and receiving signals by means of electro- | magnetic waves, he made a discovery destined to ;| economise time in greater degree than has any other ;3 invention in the history of the world. || True, this is not the only boon this genius conferred 3i upon humanity, but this economy of itself is the source -Im of other and greater intrinsic benefits and without it %1 the invention would have lost most of its value. \;M The consistent, high quality and fine flavour of "Amber Tips" Tea would not be so valued throughout the * Dominion were it not for the test of its economy in making more cups than can be brewed from ail eqpal _; quantity of ordinary teas . . . and is not this 9fiothe&&\excellent reason for the claim that "Those "Amber Tips" know why others also
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19983, 18 July 1930, Page 18
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