Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — Impreseive Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Impreseive Statistics.

That wireless telegraphy is becoming a powerful factor in overseas communications is shown by statistics recently collected which give the number of stations at 1,550, classified approximately as follows: Commercial land stations, 195; merchant vessels, 170; lighthouses, etc. (government stations), 150; naval Installations, 670; military portable in-, stallatlons, 55; experimental stations, 310. These 1,560 stations had been erected by the various companies in approximately the following proportions: Telefunken, 41 per cent.; Marconi, 20 per cent; De Forest 6 per cent; Lodge-Muirhead, 8 per cent.; Fesenden, 3 per cent; other systems, 27 per cent As regarded commercial land stations the proportions were: Marconi, 32 per cent; other systems, 68 per cent On merchant vessels: Marconi, 56 per cent; other systems, 44 per cent