MARCONI INVENTION
GUIDING SHIPS BY WIRELESS IMPRESSIVE DEMONSTRATION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, July 30. (Received July 31, at 12.40 p.m.) At the little seaport of Sestri Levante, near Genoa, Signor Marconi demonstrated a new control enabling fogbound vessels to be brought to port by means of wireless signals sent out by a land station on a sixty-centimetre wavelength. His yacht, Elletrn,' on which the new apparatus was fitted, was brought two miles from a wrong course, then unerringly guided between buoys ninety yards apart, representing a harbour entrance. All the blinds of the navigating room were drawn. A nuttiber of prominent British shipping experts were deeply impressed by the demonstration, one stating that navigation iu the thickest fog was’now possible. Others emphasised the groat value of the invention in naval warfare. i.
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Evening Star, Issue 21786, 31 July 1934, Page 9
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