WIRELESS TRIUMPH.
ATLANTIC LINER NEVER OUT OF TOUCH WITH LAND.
The “Daily Mail” recently received the following telegram via the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company : White Star Liner, Cedric, Thursday. Have refitted with powerful wireless apparatus. In communication with the English and French coast at 1,2-50 miles’ distance, and also with Flnfos Island on three successive days. We have been in communication with the European and American coast every day of the passage and are now 1,14-0 miles from Nov York.
This is the first occasion on which a liner has been in continual communication with both coasts while crossing.the Atlantic. The ordinary Marconi apparatus in use in most liners has a radium of about 350 miles, so that when a ship is 'more than that, distance from the shore she must rely on other vessel to ‘‘relay” •her messages to land. In September last Mr. Marconi, using a kite to carry aloft Ids “aerial,” transmitted a message 3,500 miles from on board ship. This, however, was accomplished with an apparatus only capable of use in calm weather, and the performance could not- lie repeated on the following-day.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3143, 13 February 1911, Page 6
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187WIRELESS TRIUMPH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3143, 13 February 1911, Page 6
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