Signalling through space without wires : being a description of the work of Hertz & his successors . g a much-to-be-desired emendation of the law,whereby the courts can take cognisance of discoveries orfundamental steps in an invention communicated to andofficially dated by a responsible scientific society, and canthereafter award to the discoverer such due and moderaterecompense as shall seem appropriate when a great industryhas risen on the basis of that same discovery or funda- TELEGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS. 51 mental invention—pending this much-to-be-desired modifi-cation of the law, it appears
Signalling through space without wires : being a description of the work of Hertz & his successors . g a much-to-be-desired emendation of the law,whereby the courts can take cognisance of discoveries orfundamental steps in an invention communicated to andofficially dated by a responsible scientific society, and canthereafter award to the discoverer such due and moderaterecompense as shall seem appropriate when a great industryhas risen on the basis of that same discovery or funda- TELEGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS. 51 mental invention—pending this much-to-be-desired modifi-cation of the law, it appears to be necessary to go throughthe inappropriate and repulsive form of registering a claimto an attempt at a monopoly. The instinct of the scientificworker is to publish everything, to hope that any usefulaspect of it may be as quickly as possible utilised, and totrust to the instinct for fair play that he shall not be theloser when the thing becomes commercially profitable. Togrant him a monopoly is to grant him a more than doubtfulboon ; to grant him the privilege of fighting for his monopoly. A* Fig. 24 (Fig. 5 of Specification 11,575/97).—Syntonic Radiator, adapted forsending and for receiving. , is to grant him a pernicious privilege, which will sap his energy,waste his time, and destroy his power of future production. However, the author, in consultation with friends, decidedthat registration was, under present conditions, necessary,and, accordingly, for his attempt at syntony and otherimprovements in the Hertz wave method of signalling, hecan refer here to certain patents taken out, in conjunctionchiefly with Dr. Alexander Muirhead, his co-worker, which arenumbered respectively as follows :— (1) 11,575 of 1897, wherein is described the generalsyntonic principle and the mode of prolonging the duration e 2 52 SIGNALLING WITHOUT WIRES. of the vibrations emitted by a radiator or by a receiver. Thisis done by adding to it electromagnetic inertia (that is, a self-inductio
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