WIRELESS AT SEA
MARCONI’S TEST. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ROME, July 30. At the little seaport of Sestri Levante, near Genoa, Marconi demonstrated 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 wave length. His yacht, Elletra, on which the new apparatus was fitted, was brought two miles from the wrong course, then unerringly guided between buoys ninety yards apart, representing a harbour entrance. All the blinds of the navigating room were drawn. A number of prominent British shipping experts were deeply impressed by the demonstration, one stating that navigation in the thickest fog was now possible. Others emphasised the great value of the invention in naval warfare.
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Grey River Argus, 1 August 1934, Page 8
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