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I must tell you about a fine experience I had with Mr. Marconi when he received the first signals across the Atlantic, but before I do so I want to say a few words concerning the great inventor and his wireless telegraph.
Quite a number of people seem to be imbued with the idea that no one ever thought of sending messages by wireless before Mr. Marconi -- in fact that he just put together a few old electrical instruments and forthwith sent and received messages over space without any connecting wires.