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THE meeting of Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Company held last week was of more interest than such meetings usually are, as Mr. Marconi made use of the opportunity by replying in a long speech to the many adverse criticisms which had been passed on his work. No new development has ever been brought about without having to encounter a certain amount of opposition; wireless telegraphy is no exception to the general rule, and the criticism which it has had to meet has been accentuated on account of the magnitude of the interests vested in cable enterprise. But wireless telegraphy has also enjoyed more than its share of popular enthusiasm, and it is perhaps partly on account of the unreasoning nature of this enthusiasm that technical writers have thought it desirable to sound a warning note. It is doubtless unnecessary to sell out cable shares immediately because the signal āSā has been successfully transmitted across the Atlantic, but it is equally unnecessary to assume that the result is not genuine before the details of the experiments have been published. With reference to these recent experiments, and the suggestion put forward by some of the technical papers that Mr. Marconi was deceived by atmospheric disturbances, he appeals, we think with justice, to his long experience in the matter as sufficient guarantee of the genuineness of the result, and points out that in his first successful experiment over 200 miles it was the same signal that was received.
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S., M. Posting and Promise of Wireless Telegraphy . Nature 65, 394ā395 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065394a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/065394a0