The New Wizard

Young Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrician, has been attracting attention in the scientific world for several years. Although only 23 years old, it is said that he has accomplished something that Tesla and Edison experimented for without any great success. Marconi claims to be the inventor of the wireless telegraph.

While the idea of "wireless telegraphy" is not new, it was deemed by many to be almost impossible to bring it to such perfection that it might be made of practical utility. The Italian says that the distance to which he has transmitted messages, twelve miles, is only limited by the imperfection of his present appliances.

Nikola Tesla declines to comment at length of Marconi's inventions, on the ground that he himself has devoted a number of years to the study of the great problem of transmitting dispatches without wires.