FOG-BOUND VESSELS
GUIDED BY WIRELESS AN IMPRESSIVE TEST ROME, July 30. At the little seaport of Sestri Levapte, near Genoa, Signor Marconi demonstrated a new control enabling fog-bound vessels to be brought to port by means of wireless signals sent out by a land station on a 60-ccntimetre wavelength. His yacht, Elletra, on which the new apparatus was fitted, was brought two miles from a wrong course, then unerringly guided between buoys 00yds apart,'representing a harbour entrance. AIL 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22329, 1 August 1934, Page 7
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