written arrangement, "is Italy; my adopted country is America. I say both with pride, and therefore you can imagine with what delight I speak about one of

mer home, and my father, who is a little older than Signor Marconi, knew him well, as well indeed as anyone might know one who was from

y and she also encouraged her son in his tastes. Electricity had a strange fascination for the boy and as he grew older and began to grasp the theories and methods employed in its

dvanced school in Leghorn, later entering the University at Bologna. But with all that he learned of theory and practice concerning wha

ided him with all the instruments and apparatus he c

f life who have been poor, but over there that is a rare thing. Wealth brings opportunity and quick recognition. Guglielmo had this advantage, but if he had not also possessed an earnest, painstaking and brilliant mind h

state into a vast laboratory and experimenting station. His grea

s first experiments were for only a few yards. Then he made the distance longer and longer, little by little, till at the

d said that his father was very foolish indeed to encourage him in wasting so much time an

n one side of a field and on the other side a correspondin

for the tick of his recording instrument, that he knew should come from the spark sent acr

transmission and the boy's heart gave an exultant boun

were used and it was found that the distance could be

us consisted of electric batteries, an induction coil by which the force of the current is increased, a telegrapher's key to make and b

eeded in sending a message two miles through the air, Guglielmo determined that it could be two hundred, or two thousand miles, but he chose a shorter distance to prove his theory. He went to the English Channel and before long the world was astounded to learn th

build and link nation to nation more closely. He was well received in England and began his further work with all the encouragement possible. A series of tests fo

a's attention at her summer residence at Osborne House, also on the Isle of Wight. At this time the Prince of Wales, who afterward became King Edward the Seventh, was

acles then-made William Marconi world-famou

if I did geeve the English form, I should turn it into Beel." He smiled at our hero who had come down f

nstruments in an old barracks at the mouth of the harbor near St. Johns. In a few days his preparations were made, quite secretly. His plans were communicated to no one, except his assistants, for he knew there would be the general skepticism concerning hi

increased, snapping the wire and blowing the kite into the ocean. Thereupon Guglielmo used a balloon fill

th the telephone receiver at his ear, listening, wondering, hopeful. It must have been a moment of almost painful expectation. He looked out from his position high on the cliff and could see the dim, rocky outlines of Cape Spear, the most eastern point of the North American continent. Beyond this rolled the blue Atlantic, two thousand mile

th the instrument and listen for a time. A moment later, faintly, yet distinctly and unmistakably, came the three clicks indicating the dots of the letter S, according to the Morse code, the signal that had been agreed upon with the assi

modest and sane. From every quarter of the world came plaudits. The cable company, fearing injury to its business, demanded that he cease operations in its territory, which w

e in his native land, he belongs to all countries, to all oceans, for it is everywhere now that his great discovery is made use of. No need for me to mention the