MARCONI SYSTEM OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

Evening Star, Issue 11512, 1 April 1901, Page 4

MARCONI SYSTEM OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

SOME INIKRESTINO EXPERIMENTS. '• Proifeworflemiag, ox London, jn a teowti wires* to th> WTOpflol Chamber of Commerce, oh th» Marooni system of Wireless t€Jag»»pihy as applied tat lightships and lighthouses, made tha flrife public announcement of *n important feat by Marconi. He had established station* thirty TOi}e» apart, at Sfc, OafcheriueX W* of Wight, and Poole, in Hampshire. Tfca line joining them w-a# crossed by ti» Aflmiralty l}nc .from Portsmouth to Portland, but Mareoni had been able to send and receive, two messages simultaneously batmen bit stations without in the least interfering with the Admiralty testa. He recently had aimed at higher achievements, and had established a station at the Lissrd, in Qo»h wall, which was 200 mftes oversea, in a direct line from St. Catherine's, and, setting m» Wa improved apparatus and a mast 160 ft high, ha had accomplished the astonishing feat of sending wireless messages between these two places on tie first day of the reign of King Edward VII. Since then he had established perfect ronimtmioatiau without wire* In both directions, and could send and receive two or more messages simultaneously at either place. _^_______