Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . hrough space, and affect a sensitive instrument, tunedto receive its vibrations, several miles away. Thisdiscovery gave to the youthful Marconi the idea of theabolition of the telegraph wire, as but a clumsy devicefor instant communication between distant lands. Itexercised a powerful fascination over his imagination,and spurred the inventive faculty and the delight inelectrical experiments which he had displayed even inhis earliest schoolboy days.
Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . hrough space, and affect a sensitive instrument, tunedto receive its vibrations, several miles away. Thisdiscovery gave to the youthful Marconi the idea of theabolition of the telegraph wire, as but a clumsy devicefor instant communication between distant lands. Itexercised a powerful fascination over his imagination,and spurred the inventive faculty and the delight inelectrical experiments which he had displayed even inhis earliest schoolboy days. After years of painstaking and exhaustive investi-gations on his fathers estate in Italy, he invented twoinstruments of weird and almost uncanny powers—a transmitter which sends a message on a magneticwave from one continent to another, across thousands ofmiles of sea, undisturbed even by the swift and over-2)owering rush and roar of the tempest; and a receiver,which registers the communication almost the momentafter it has been despatched! Thus did ChevalierMarconi rise to a position of the highest repute amongscientific discoverers. s«.
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