All About Inventions and Discoveries
The Romance of modern scientific and mechanical Achievements

ALL ABOUT INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES CHAPTER I Wireless Telegraphy Visitors to Sunny Italy during the year 1895 who wandered among the picturesque sylvan homes fringing the city of Bologna had their curiosity keenly aroused when passing a particular villa. In the grounds were a few poles or masts of varying heights, each of which carried an unpretentious tin box. The picture was somewhat quaint, recalling nothing so much, perhaps, as the cleared patches surrounding an aboriginal village in the forest, where branch-stripped trees are bedecked with small unsightly wooden re- ceptacles perched high above the ground. These poles and tin boxes not only aroused the attention of travellers, but puzzled the neighbours as well. To them their purpose or object was equally inscrutable. And their wonder became accentuated when they made a surreptitious closer investigation, because they found thin wires trailing from some of the tin boxes, the lower ends of which disappeared into a small outbuilding. The more intimately acquainted and the courage- ous, unable to stifle their inquisitiveness, sought an explanation of the mystery from the gentleman to B