The Inventor of Wireless

To the Editor of The New York Times:

THE NEW YORK TIMES last week reported an interview with Marconi, in which he said: They [the Germans] have even stolen my invention." I question whether Mr. Marconi is justified in making such a statement. Does he owe nothing to the inspiration of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, that great German genius, or to K. A. Steinheil and Gauss of Munich? And Has Mr. Marconi not heard of the Tuckerton wireless, the most improved of all the systems? And has Nikola Tesla no claim on the attention of scientists? I remember well the great English scientist, Sir Robert Ball, saying that he considered Tesla the more ingenious inventor. M. U. Greystone-on-Hudson, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1915.