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PROF. FLEMING said that the achievements of electric-wave telegraphy had not yet ceased to interest the public mind. In little more than eight years from the time when Mr. Marconi sent his first messages across the English Channel, it had become an indispensable implement in naval warfare, and also a means of communication between ships and the shore, greatly adding to the safety of life and property at sea. At the present time practically the whole of the first- and second-class battleships of the British Navy are equipped with apparatus for electric-wave telegraphy, and about 130 cruisers and smaller craft as well. The Marconi Company alone have fitted with their instruments nearly 100 Atlantic liners and other mercantile vessels, and have an elaborate organisation by which all these ships are constantly in communication with the mainland during their voyage from port to port. Concurrently with this, an immense amount of scientific investigation has been carried on having for its object further improvements and the quantitative study of the phenomena. The object of the discourse was to make known some of these recent additions to knowledge.
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Recent Contributions to Electric Wave Telegraphy 1 . Nature 76, 259–261 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076259b0
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