MARCONI ENTHUSIASTIC OVER GROWTH OF RADIO BROADCASTING IN U.S.
New York City (JFK+50) On June 16, 1922, Guglielmo Marconi* arrived here in New York "aboard his floating radio laboratory, the Italian yacht Elletra."
He was interviewed on board by the radio editor of the Tribune, Jack Binns who writes the inventor of wireless telegraphy** was "enthusiastic...over the tremendous growth of radio broadcasting" in the United States.
Mr. Marconi discussed a "new high-speed wireless apparatus and reflected waves" which will encircle the globe and be used for "direct telephoning."
*Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi (1874-1937) was born in Bologna, Italy & became an electrical engineer & inventor. GGMM is known for creating a practical radio wave based wireless telegraph system & as the inventor of the radio.
**Wireless telegraphy or radiotelegraphy, invented in 1895, is the transmission of telegraphic signals by radio waves.
SOURCE
"Radio Wave to Encircle Globe, Cable's Supremacy Threatened," by Jack Binns, The New York Tribune, June 17, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
