PRECURSOR OF MUSSOLINI

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 274, 20 December 1929, Page 4

PRECURSOR OF MUSSOLINI

MESSAGES IN 1865 Wliile Marconi is generally credited with being the inventor of wireless telegi'aphy, the first radio messages were sent duiing the Civil War, stated iNIr 0. Francis Jenkins, the best known Anierican authority on television, in a recent interview. "Although Profcssor JoSejih Henry, in 1832, discovered that 'eleetrical oscillations coutd bo'detected a considerable .distance from the' oscillator, it remained for a Washingtou dentist, Dr Maholon Looniis, to a.ctuallv send the first radio messages," said Ml' Jenkins. "In 18G5 he built an oscillating circuit and connected it to a wire aerial

supported by a kite, - One station was set up on Bear Den Alountain,- Virginia, not very far from Washingtou, and a duplicate station was set up- 0n top of Catoctin Spur, fifteen ihile.s. distant. "iMessages were seii't' alternately from oue station to the othei" hy dofr and dash interrnption of a buzzer spark cireuit.' Recept'ioh was attaiued by a galvonometer needle at the receivmg point. . . , • "In 1869 a • bill was introduccd in Congress to incorporate tlie Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company. Nobcd.V would buy tlie stock and it remained for others, years later, to reap the rewartl of radio broadcasting." >