Marconi Lights Lamp by Wireless

Announces His Latest Achievement in Electricity — Devoting His Attention, However, to Perfecting Wireless Telephone.

London, Feb. 14.—It is announced that Signor Marconi has succeeded in lighting an electric lamp by electricity through the agency of wireless at a distance of six miles. A bulb was attached to the receiver connected with an aerial receiving wire. The transmitter was linked up with a 100-horse-power apparatus, and as soon as the power was applied the lamp lighted and remained lighted so long as the power was kept on.

The experiment brings a step nearer realisation Nikola Tesla’s prediction of long ago that houses would eventually be illuminated by electricity caught from the air by masts on the roofs, and Signor Marconi hopes that it will be the forerunner not only of lighting, but of heating houses by electric waves. At present, however, Signor Marconi is giving his main attention to aerophony. He said:

Able to Converse 100 Miles.

“I am not aiming particularly to obtain a distinctly audible message. I have been able to communicate quite easily and clearly for a hundred miles, using ordinary receivers and apparatus which are very like the ones usually used on telephones. The difficulty is with the transmitter, which is very heavy and needs two men to carry it.”

Signor Marconi concluded by saying that he hoped to have direct aerograph connection between Belmar, N. J., and Carnarvon, Wales, completed in a few months.

Signor Marconi ridicules the theory of M. Duroquiere, a French scientist, that when wireless waves meet at a half way point they are the cause of great disturbances and that the Volturno and other disasters were caused by interference of Hertzian waves. Marconi says wireless waves do not meet.