Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . p and improve the sys-tem as Poulsen took a pride in having Elwell organized a company and builtstations at Sacramento and Stockton. Afterthe possibilities of the system had been suc- cessfully demonstrated by these stations, Thompson and other San Franciscocapitalists became interested in the proposi-tion and spent a large sum of money in build-ing new stations and carrying on experimentalwork for over a year. At the end of thattime they became convinced of its merits, andof the fact that successful and reliable com-munication by wireless
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . p and improve the sys-tem as Poulsen took a pride in having Elwell organized a company and builtstations at Sacramento and Stockton. Afterthe possibilities of the system had been suc- cessfully demonstrated by these stations, Thompson and other San Franciscocapitalists became interested in the proposi-tion and spent a large sum of money in build-ing new stations and carrying on experimentalwork for over a year. At the end of thattime they became convinced of its merits, andof the fact that successful and reliable com-munication by wireless over land at all times,and over practical commercial distances, wasat last possible. Freak messages sent overgreat distances are frequently made mentionof in the papers, but the possibility of send-ing such messages may occur only once amonth or once a year, which makes them ofno value for commercial purposes. Accordmgly the Poulsen Wireless Corpor-ation of Arizona was organized in October,1910, and later the Federal Telegraph Com-. San Francisco Station, Forty-eighth Avenue, between L and M Streets55
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