WONDERS OF WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1920, Page 4

WONDERS OF WIRELESS

A SENSATIONAL PRESS ARTICLE

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. i

ROME, February 15

Marconi, in a sensational article, ill the newspaper “11 Nuovo Giomale,” predicts as imminent a revolution in wireless communication. Fie says that within the present year vocal communications, transmitted without wires, will replace, the cumbrous system of to-day. This will dispense entirely with the cost of maintaining lines and also with the frequent interruptions owing to bad weather. “To-day,” he said, “we cannot concentrate the expansion of energy within a limited sector of the circle, but .science will find a way to direct electrical energy in a straight line which will result in less expenditure of energy. Once directive control is established, we shall be able to gird the whole world with the waves of electrical energy by simpler pressing a transmitting button.”

Marconi describes the marvellous ra. dio telegraphic receiver, the size of a gramaphone, by which he received all day long in his study, every scrap of wireless news sent out by bankers, politicians and business men. He will soon be able to keep continual contact with both hemispheres, and the miserable ticking machine on which newspaper offices depend will yield place to this mighty invention, which will be equally suitable for news sending and news reoeiving, thus saving the great loss of time due to sending separate messages. Hews will also be registered in clear language, without the necessity of the Morse code. When the radio-telegraph ic receivers are established at every public school, university and library, the public interest in international happenings will immediately be stimulated and every boy should be as well primed in the world’s news as the inveterate reader.