Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . stages of the project, I may say that whenthe Egyptian Government informed me that they wanted the workscarried out for a lump sum, and no payment to be made to thecontractor until the works were completed, I felt it would be idle toinvite tenders until some arrangement had been made as to in other cases of doubt and difficulty, therefore, I went to myfriend, Sir Ernest Cassel, and the difficulties vanished. The waywas then clear for getting offers f
Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . stages of the project, I may say that whenthe Egyptian Government informed me that they wanted the workscarried out for a lump sum, and no payment to be made to thecontractor until the works were completed, I felt it would be idle toinvite tenders until some arrangement had been made as to in other cases of doubt and difficulty, therefore, I went to myfriend, Sir Ernest Cassel, and the difficulties vanished. The waywas then clear for getting offers for the work. Sir John Aird and the successful competitors, and they have completed a largelyincreased quantity of work in less than the contract time, to theentire satisfaction of the Egyptian Government and of every onewith whom they have been associated. The same recognition is dueto Messrs. Ransomes and Rapier, and their able engineer and manager,Mr. Wilfred Stokes, who was unexpectedly called upon to completeall the complicated machinery of the sluices and gates in one yearunder the contract time, and did it. [B. 1902.] Mr. G. Marconi on Electric Space Telegraphy. 195 WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, Friday, June 13, 1902. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, ,President, in the Chair. G. Marconi, Esq., M. Inst. The Progress of Electric Space Telegraphy. Wireless Telegraphy, or telegraphy through space without con-necting wires, is a subject which at present is probably attracting moreworld-wide attention than any other practical development of modernelectrical engineering. That it should be possible to actuate an in-strument from a distance of hundreds or thousands of miles and obligeit at will to reproduce audible or visible signals through the effectsof electrical oscillations transmitted to it without the aid of any con-tinuous artificial conductor, strikes the minds of most people as beingan achievement both wonderful and mysterious. If we ex
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