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IT is now eighteen months since we last attempted in these columns to take a general survey of the development of wireless telegraphy. In the history of a science which has enlisted the services of so many skilled experimentalists, each of whom has made rapid progress along his own lines, eighteen months is a comparatively long period; as a result, we are compelled to-day to. regard the subject from a very different point of view. At that time, there were practically only two systems-Mr. Marconi's and Prof. Slaby's-which had advanced to such a degree of perfection that they deserved special consideration. To-day, it would hardly be too much to say that in every civilised nation there are one or more inventors with a carefully worked-out and tested system ready for general use. Particulars of these different systems have been published from time to time and have been duly referred to in NATURE; unfortunately, the information published is not, as a rule, of the kind that one most desires to obtain; too often it is obviously “inspired,” and consists for the most part of insufficiently supported claims to successful syntonisation, or to record making in the way of long-distance transmission or rapid signalling, information which is very acceptable to the daily papers, which forget one day what they have published the day before, but of little use to those who are seriously interested in the subject.
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SOLOMON, M. The Present State of Wireless Telegraphy . Nature 67, 131–133 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067131a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/067131a0