We have been made to work many other forms of telegraph instruments. In some of these we control type-letters, while in others we imitate handwriting, but all these are merely adaptations of our powers of marching. We are proud of our achievements in rapid signalling, which all right-thinking people have not been slow to acknowledge.


CHAPTER X

HOW WE COMMUNICATE WITH DISTANT SHIPS


THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER TEN

In this chapter the electron deals with that modern marvel—Wireless Telegraphy.

Here the æther of space plays a very prominent part.