The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1913. WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 29, 4 October 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1913. WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

When, the American fleet was in New I Zealand waters it was reported that the different vessels were able to communicate with each other by a system of wireless telephony at a distance of not more than ten miles apart. The appliance in use, however, was by no means perfected, and though it is bound to come, little so far has been heard of this latest wonder as regards its application to general use is con- , cernod. it is interesting to learn that at a meeting of the Marconi Company in London last month it was manifest by the report that wireless telegraphy is established upon a very wide and profitable basis, and the prediction was confidently made that, by means of Marconi patents, telephone messages will shortly bo sent across the ocean from the. cabins of steamship* to the homes of passengers. The age of miracles, far from having passed, is essentially our age, and ho is a bold man who would now write down anything as impossible. It may be safely taken that a statement of this kind coming from Mr Marconi himself has. not been made without the I fullest knowledge that the tiling can be done. In one sense, however, as a London writer remarks in commenting on Mr Marconi’s statement, the scientist and the inventor have added to the mystery and the bewilderment of life, because, while wo use their appliances, wo are most of ns blissfully ignorant of the natural forces that are being utilised and how they are nltilised. The telephone on our

tables is itself a thing of thrills and magic, but far more wonderful indeed will it be when, without the aid of wires, wo can send and receive the spoken word in the natural human voice.