WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY 



AT noon, on December 12, 1901, the two thousand 

 miles of the Atlantic from Cornwall to Nova Scotia 

 were spanned with invisible fingers. The first wire- 

 less signal had crossed. True, it was faint, inter- 

 mittent, just a signal the three Morse dots which 

 stand for the letter " S." But they came, that day 

 and the next, sometimes slowly, sometimes in quick 

 repetition, as had been arranged. There could be 

 no mistaking the fact. Cables might now be coiled 

 up and sold for junk. Wireless telegraphy had 

 come for all the world. 



And Marconi was but twenty-seven. At an age 

 when most men are just beginning, he had out- 

 stripped all competitors, and there were a host. 

 His is a name now known in all the lands of 

 Christendom. The ablest and most famous elec- 

 tricians acclaim his success. In the public mind, 

 Marconi and wireless telegraphy are one ; he is 

 its creator. 



The latter is an error. In the tremendous burst 

 of applause which came with his triumph, the nat- 



