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Wireless Telegraphy 13 Kingstown from any distance up to twenty-five miles, which was the maximum attempted. The reporting of the regatta by wireless proved an astonishing success. The Flying Huntress accom- panied the vessels, and meantime sent a continuous string of messages to Kingstown describing the races. Upon receipt at Kingstown they were telephoned direct to the editorial rooms of the newspaper, and the Dublin readers had the novel experience of follow- ing the races while they were actually in progress, and when the vessels were out of sight of land. The enterprise of the Dublin Daily Express met with the success it deserved, while it indicated, for the first time, one of the fields in which wireless might be utilised profitably. Hot on the heels of this success came another appreciation. His Majesty King Edward VII., then Prince of Wales, had the misfortune to meet with an injury to his knee which demanded a period of com- plete rest, and he was transferred to the Royal yacht for medical treatment. Queen Victoria, in order to keep in touch with the yacht, called upon Marconi to provide a wireless communicating link between the vessel and Osborne House. This installation brought the invention very prominently before the Royal Family, the floating station, the instruments of which were accommodated in the saloon, being a never-ending source of interest and wonder to the august visitors to the yacht during the royal invalid s indisposition. While Marconi was meeting with success on every hand, he was toiling as assiduously as he had done a few years previously upon his father’s estate at