STAR BEAM
TELEGRAPHED FROM ROME TO CHICAGO CHICAGO, Oct. 3. • Light from Hid star Capella was captured last night to cap the series of honors accorded Senator Guglieliho Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, who is a guest of the city and the World Fair. Welcomed at the fair grbwid and presented with a special medal by the president of the exposition, Marconi witessed the illumiation of the grounds through the agency of Capella’s light. A beam from the distant star, picked up by a telescope in Florence, Italy, was telegraphed to Rome, flashed by wireless to New York and then by telegraph wire to Chicago. Here it replaced the light from the star Acturus, medium for turning the switch which floodlights the fair area.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 12
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