latitude at the time they were received.

It was only a few months afterward that Marconi, from his first station
in the United States, at Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass., sent a message
direct to Poldhu, three thousand miles. At frequent intervals messages
go from one country to the other across the ocean, carried through fog,
unaffected by the winds, and following the curvature of the earth,
without the aid of wires.

Again the unassuming nature of the young Italian was shown. There was
no brass band nor display of national colours in honour of the great
achievement; it was all accomplished quietly, and suddenly the world
woke up to find that the thing had been done. Then the great personages
on both sides of the water congratulated and complimented each other by
Marconi's wireless system.

At Marconi's new station at Glacé Bay, Cape Breton, and at the powerful
station at Wellfleet, Cape Cod, the receiving and sending wires are
supported by four great towers more than two hundred feet high. Many
wires are used instead of one, and much greater power is of course
employed than at first, but the marvellously simple principle is the
same that was used in the garden at Bologna. The coherer has been
displaced by a new device invented by Marconi, called a magnetic
detector, by which the ether waves are aided by a stronger current to
record the message. The effect is the same, but the method is entirely
different.

The sending of a long-distance message is a spectacular thing. Current
of great power is used, and the spark is a blinding flash accompanied by
deafening noises that suggest a volley from rifles. But Marconi is