into suburban real estate quickly and easily accessible from the great
centres. Telephone service was extended far into country parts, and,
with the rural free delivery of mail, brought farmers into quick and
inexpensive communication with the outside world, robbing the farm of
what was once both its chief attraction and its greatest
inconvenience--isolation.
Guglielmo Marconi and his wireless telegraph.
German experiments developed an electric surface car with a speed of two
miles a minute. Wireless telegraphy came into use. By means of high