WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3018, 17 January 1912, Page 46

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

SIGXOR MARCONI AND SIR OLIVER LODGE. SETTLEMENT OF DIFFERENCES. The welcome announcement was recently made that the Marconi's Wirelee-u Telegraph Company (Ltd.) and the LodgeMuuhead Syndicate (Ltd.) had settled their differences, and thus put an end to the litigation that had been begun. Signor Marconi's firm will take over all the LodgeMuirhcad patents, and Sir Oliver Lodge, who is principal of the University of Birmingham and an eminent scientist, will act as scientific adviser to the purchasing company.

Sir Oliver Lodge was a student of tho "wireless" problem long before matters reached tho commercial stage, and it war, inevitable that sooner or later there must be friction between the rival interests regarding the respective patents. The course now adopted overcomes all difficulties, for, with the English scientist definitely associated with the Marconi interests, his work will receive full recognition and at the same time he will have a wider scopo for his abilities than has hitherto been possible. This is evident when it is remembered that up to now tho two great exponents of wireless telegraphy have worked independently, each avoiding the other's line of investigation. The two inventors will now work in harmony, and thus ensuro tho utmost efficiency. This is particularly the case in regard to long-distance messages, which are now transmitted with ease over a distance exceeding 2000 miles. Negotiations have recently been entered into with the proper authorities for an all-the-world service, and it is hoped to put tho necessary arrangements in hand within tho next few weeks. In other words, Mr Marconi's dream of a girdle round the globe i* on the vergo of fulfilment pnd will complete for the jirosont the directors' programme of construction work.

Tho following resolution was passed at an extraordinary general meeting of tho Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company yesterday:—"That the capital of tho company bo increased by the creation of 250,000 new ordinary shares of £1 each, to bo issued on such terms and conditions as tho directors think fit, such shares to rank pari passu in all respects with tho existing 500,000 ordinary shares of £1 each. Mr Godfrey Isaacs said it was owing to the considerable development of wireless telegraphy throughout tho world and the immense business which the company was, and would be, called upon to conduct that the directors were determined that they should not be handicapped by insufficient capital in turning to the fullest account the fresh opportunities offering in this groat scientific industry. The company was in active negotiation with the British Government in connection with tho great scheme of Imperial wireless stations, and the directors hoped that the near future would enable them to announce that tho construction of these stations was about to be begun. Tho company had just received a cablo message from Chile stating that its offer for the construction of a number of stations for the Chilian Government had been accepted.