Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1898 — Wireless Telegraphing at a Race. [ARTICLE]

Wireless Telegraphing at a Race.

An interesting experiment In telegraphing across space was conducted by Marconi recently for the benefit of the Dublin newspapers, which desired to make a practical test of the possibilities of wireless telegraphy. The trial consisted in the transmission of descriptions of the yacht races. The messages were sent from distances varying from five to ten miles, and were published in successive editions of the Evening Mail. Not a hitch occurred, the Instruments working splendidly, und not a single message had to be repeated. Signor Marconi was the operator in the cabin of the Daily Express steam tug, and the messages were received by his chief assistant, at the land station in Kingstown, from which point they were telephoned to the offices of the Express and Evening Mall on a wire especially erected by the telephone company. It can readily be understood that for work of this kind wireless telegraphy should prove of great value. With suitable equipment in the press boats following the yachts and provision for receiving the messages on shore, details could be telegraphed as the race progressed.