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long electric waves could be obtained. Since then 

 he has carried his wires on high masts, as at Poldhu, 

 Glace Bay, and Wellfleet Station. The Marconi 

 companies have equipped six stations in the United 

 States, five in Hawaii, twenty in Great Britain, 

 one in Belgium and one in France. There are 

 eighteen ocean steamers, thirty-two British-men-of 

 war and several Italian and American warships 

 which have Marconi installations. Marconi says : 

 " There are thirty-five land stations, twenty-one 

 liners and eighty-five warships equipped with Mar- 

 coni apparatus. Land stations cost $1,000, and 

 ship equipment, $700. Trans-Atlantic stations cost 

 $100,000 each." 



Wireless telegraphy is the most recent miracle of 

 electricity, and shows it to be the cosmic energy 

 of the universe. Science stumbled upon it. And 

 in the same way, Sir Wm. Crookes, in a recent in- 

 terview, says: "Science may some day stumble 

 upon the soul. Men of science believe more than 

 they can express, spiritually as well as physically." 

 He will not prophesy, but said with ominous im- 

 port : " If you had come to me a hundred years 

 ago do you think I should have dreamed of fore- 

 telling the telephone? Why, even now I cannot 

 understand it. I use it every day, but I don't un- 

 derstand it. Think of that little, stretched disk of 

 iron at the end of a wire repeating not only sounds, 

 but words, and with the most delicate and illusive 

 inflections of tone which separate one human voice 

 from another." 



Mr. Peter Cooper Hewitt, says the Electrical 

 Review, has invented a new apparatus which it is 

 said will make a revolution in the method of send^ 



