WIRELESS RESEARCH
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Early Days in New Zealand LORD RUTHERFORD'S WORK
(By Telegraph—
WELLINGTON, Last Night. *'With the passing of Lord Rutherford, the world has lost a pioneer on the new frontier of science," said Dr. F. Marsden, of the Department of Scientific InduBtrial Research, • to-day. "While I was working with him for six years, he had representatives of aimost all nationalities working in his laboratory, which was the Mecca of the greatest scientific intellects, and it can be truthfully said that his students occupy high positions in practically every country of the world. "To us in New Zealand the interest naturally lies in the fact that, while at Canterbufy College about 1893, Lord Rutherford made researchos into wireless waves, or, As they were then called, Heftzian waves. These experimentsj he aftetwards continued at Cambridge, and they led to the construction of tbe first magnetic detector of wireiess waves, afterwards completed and patented by the late Marchese Marconi. Thanks to Lord Rutherford, therefore, New Zealand can justly claim the honour of being the country where some of the first experiments in wireiess were carried out."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 25, 22 October 1937, Page 4
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