WIRELESS WONDER

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 122, 17 February 1920, Page 7

WIRELESS WONDER

SENSATIONAL PREDICTION BY MARCONI VOCAL COMMUNICATION WITHOUT WIRES MARVELLOUS RECEIVER DESCRIBED (Dy Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Kec. February 16, 8.10 p.m.) Rome, February 15. In a sensational article in the newsnaner "II Nuovo Giornale" Signor Marconi nredicts an imminent revolution in wireless communication. He says that within the present year vocal communications transmitted without wires will renlace the cumbrous system of to-day. This will dispense entirely with the cost of maintaining lines, also the frequent interruntions owing to bad weather. "To-dav we cannot concentrate the cxDansion of energy within a limited sector of a circle," he says, "but science will find a wav to direct electrical energy in a straight line, which will result in less expenditure of energy. Once directive control is established, wo shall be able to gird the whole world with waves of electrical energy simply Dressing a transmitting button." Marconi describes a marvellous radiotelegraphic receiver, the 6ize of a gramophone, bv which he receives all day long in his study every scrap of wireless news sent, out. He says that bankers, noliticians, and business men will soon be nblo to keep in continual contact with both hemisDheres. The miserable ticking-ma-chine on which newspaper offices depend, he declares, will yield place to this miebtv invention, which will be equally suitable for news sending and news'receiving. tlni6 saving the great loss of time due to sending separate messages. News will also be registered in clear language without the necessity of using tho Morse code. ' When radio-telegraphic receivers are established at every public school, university, and library, public interest in international happenings will immediately be stimulated. Every boy should be as well nrimed in the world s news as the inveterate reader—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.