Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1902 — MARCONI SPANS THE OCEAN. [ARTICLE]

MARCONI SPANS THE OCEAN.

First Long Wireless Messaifen Pent Across lie Atlantic. Marconi has positively announced ike successful inauguration of the transoceanic wireless service between Canada and England. The great inventor made the announcement that n message from Earl Minto. governor general of Canada, wns successfully transmitted from Table Head to the Cornwall station and thence forwarded to his majesty King Edward VII. of England. A second message was sent by the commander of the. Carlo AJberto to the King of Italy and a third by Dr. Parkin, manager of the Rhodes scholarship scheme, to the London Times. 80 gradually Ims the possibility of wireless telegraphy been made known to the world that the public generally will miss the tremendous significance of the announcement made at Halifax. To appreciate it better one has only to consider thut but. a very few years ago telegraphy without wires was looked upon as something well out of the range of possible attainment. Even after its practicability for short distances hml been demonstrated the idea of sending messages across the Atlantic without wires was regarded as the dream of a visionary enthusiast. Marconi, It Hpponrs, has succeeded nut only in sending messages, across the ocean, hut in demonstrating beyond all reasonable doubt that this may be made a regular method of communication for practical purposes. The achievement uppeals to the imagination not alone ns another instance of man’s conquest of material forces, hut ns bringing a new factor into play In the social mid political life of the world. Like the telegraph, the telephone and the cable, the wireless system must have its effect in bringing the nations nearer together and making them more closely Interdependent. In some ways It may pc curiously effective hi shnping the world’s history. Frank Lewis Imnged in Hnrlan, Ky., for murder.