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...This wireless amateur came into being about twelve or fourteen years ago. He seemed to be one of the outgrowths of fooling with amateur wire telegraph instruments. A great many boys in years past became bitten with the telegraph bug and built little telegraph systems and communicated with each other in the next house or across the street. When Mr. Marconi began to achieve results with his wireless signals the most determined of these boys took up wireless. It was a hopeless effort, for Mr. Marconi himself was having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities...
...should be understood here that only very short wave impulses could be sent out by the amateur and only very small power was available, whereas, with the large commercial and military wireless stations, where plenty of money was available, long waves and large powers were made use of. The amateur therefore found himself faced with the inability to buy anything suitable to his means. He therefore must needs build it. This is just exactly what he did, and it is one of the striking features of this wonderful new art, that the amateur has been able to accomplish what...
...that time, the amateur telegraph wire had been limited to something like one city square at the outside. The keen interest of so many young men and the growing interest of older men, led some of the amateurs to embark in the business of making and selling wireless apparatus. The ordinary things were all homemade. In fact, it was impossible to buy some transmitting apparatus at all. Mr. Lee DeForest then brought out what he was pleased to term the "Audion" detector. It was a little incandescent lamp, with one or two fixings on it, and it was intended...
...Army and Navy naturally trained many thousands of new men as the War proceeded, when the Armistice finally came and the military forces gradually drifted back to civil life, there were some five wireless enthusiasts where there was one before. This intensified everything, and the military training of these young fellows began to show at once. Better organization, better co-operation and greater loyality to one another quickly developed. The relay traffic lines grew and grew, and the volume of traffic went to figures the wildest had never dreamed would be the case. Long distance records were hung up nightly...
...spanning the Atlantic Ocean. To the complete amazement of the British amateurs Mr. Godley logged not only twenty six separate American amateurs and their call letters, but also recorded any quantity of conversations going on between amateurs on this side. This achievement is the crowning effort of amateur wireless, for it opens the way for private communication across the Atlantic for private citizens. It is only a matter of months before the American, amateur sitting in his library in this country will communicate back and forth with his English friend who sits in his library in England or Scotland...