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MR. MARCONI'S lecture on “Syntonic Wireless Telegraphy,” recently delivered before the Society of Arts, gives an admirable and most interesting description of the system which he has developed and of the steps by which the development has been effected. “I have come to the conclusion,” said Mr. Marconi, “that the days of the non-tuned system are numbered.” If this prophecy be correct the non-tuned system has had, as was indeed expected, but a short life; but even in the few years that it has been in use it has accomplished much, having already to a certain extent greatly increased the pleasure and, above all, the safety of travelling by sea. There can be no better evidence of the general utility of wireless telegraphy than that the time has already arrived when the imperfections of the untuned system are making themselves felt. To quote Mr. Marconi again, “The ether about the English Channel has become exceedingly lively, and a non-tuned receiver keeps picking up messages from various sources which very often render unreadable the message one is trying to receive.” That this confusion of messages would sooner or later occur many prophesied in the early days of the art, but few, we think, seriously believed that it would come about so soon. Fortunately, now that the evil is beginning to be felt, Mr. Marconi is ready with the remedy, a well-worked-out and trustworthy system of tuned transmitters and receivers.
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Syntonic Wireless Telegraphy . Nature 64, 130–131 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064130a0
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