Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — SIGNALS ACROSS SEAS. [ARTICLE]

SIGNALS ACROSS SEAS.

Marconi Achieves Feat of Transatlantic Communication Without Wires. Mr. Marconi has accomplished the feat of sending electrical signals across the Atlantic without wires. Telegraphic characters transmitted from the station recently erected at Poldhu, near the Lizard, in Cornwall, England, have been received at St. Johns, N. F., after having covered a distance of 1,700 miles. The signals from across the sea, Mr. Marconi says, were received on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. He had arranged with the Cornwall station that the letter “S” should be signaled at 6 o’clock in the evening, which would be 2:30 o'clock at St. Johns, and the signals were received as arranged. They were received by means of a kite elevated with an aerial wire. The signals were repeated so frequently and according to the detailed plan arranged to provide safeguards against possibility of a mistake that Mr. Marconi is satisfied that it was a genuine transmission from England.