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GREAT DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE WAR TELEPHONING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC Br Teleffraph-Prees Association-Copyright (Rec. January 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 26. Mr. Godfrey Isaacs (managing director of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company), when, interviewed, said that four thousand ships had been equipped with the Marconi apparatus, compared with fifteen hundred so equipped before the war. Wireless had greatly decreased the submarine danger. One hundred and eighty-live operators had been drowned owing to their vessels being torpedoed. Portable wireless machines on the battlefields had saved tens of thousands of Jives by giving commanders vital in- \ formation. A wireless telephone was now fitted to aeroplanes. Mr. Marconi had already telephoned 350 miles, and would soon be able to wiroiessly telephone across the Atlantic. Mr. Marconi during the war developed a special wireless apparatus by means of which it was possible to follow the movements of enemy airships, aeroplanes, and men-of-war whenever they used their wire-less—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , , ,„. I :
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 5
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157VALUE OF "WIRELESS" Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 5
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