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Wireless Telegraphy
Chapter I
The Secret of Wireless Telegraphy
1. Nature’s Wonderful Medium
The term wireless telegraphy is commonly used in contradistinction to the electric telegraph in which it is necessary to employ a wire as an artificial conducting medium between stations.
Nature provides a medium, called the ether[1] through which intelligence may be communicated over sea or land; and by means of which otherwise impossible results are accomplished. The ether exists between the planets and the stars, and all the other heavenly bodies, and has no conceivable end; hence when we speak of the ether, we tacitly refer to the universe.
This infinite sea of ether is continually in a state of intense turmoil, performing its mission of transferring- ↑ This term ether has absolutely no connection with the drug of the same name.
