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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20256, 27 July 1937, Page 9

Reward for Failure.—lt is generally accepted that many of the greatest discoveries and inventions in the •world have owed their origin to disappointments and failures. To a certain degree it was due to these fads that the Marches© fiuglielmo Marconi, whose death has Just occurred .'n Italy, discovered the means of communication which enables messages to be transmitted around the world in a fraction of a second. Marconi was once, asked how lie had come to con Delve the idea of wireless. lie e\ plained that he had been signalling to i friend by means of a mirror, but i!io sun did not always shine, even in Italy, anil when it failed he. began to think whether there could' be any reliable and speedy way. In two months he had discovered the principles of wireless. II was in i 9 0 .*> I hat in an action against tlie he l or. M v 1 to have been the mail who first made possible the transmission of intelligible signals by means of Hertzian waves w;is upheld by the court. Thus out of failure came one of the world’s greatest boons. Miss Kathleen Sulll—“ proved Thyrodonejo