MARCONI INTERVIEWED

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 21, 9 December 1927, Page 13

MARCONI INTERVIEWED

FAITH IN BEAM SERVICE. During his recent visit to New York and Washington, Marconi granted many interviews to newspaper reporters. Commenting on his latest discovery, the beam wireless, Signor Marconi prophesied that it would soon supplant the ordinary commercial wireless services. ‘The beam service has already been inaugurated between England and its colonies and the Anglo-American circuit will shortly be opened. In most fields the beam wireless will supplant the cable, the inventor believes, although the cable route may still be preserved for secret messages. In the air there is always the danger of interference or the possibility that an unauthorised station may pick up the message. The danger is, however, more theoretical than practical, Signor Marconi feels, for with the beam system several hundred words a minute will be sent, requiring complicated and expensive receiving sets, ani he felt it was not within human power to transcribe otherwise messages coming in at that rate. The immediate future of fac-simile transmission by wireless, Signor Mar-

coni believes, will see whole pages off newspapers transmitted by the square jnch instead of by the word, from one end of the world to the other. Report ers’ notes put in the air in London will, in a few minutes or seconds, be visually before an editor in New York, The success of wireless enterprise itt America, which has so signally des veloped since the inventor’s visit fivg years ago, he attributed to this couns trv’s vast financial resources and *o the enthusiasm of America’s youth. =a