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the tape until the ship was 1,551 miles out and from that time on signals were recorded on the tape up to 2,099 miles.
This time there was no possible chance for the doubting Thomases to say that there might have been an error, for there were the records printed in ink on a tape and not only Mr. Marconi but the officers of the ship saw them, and the tape at different times was signed by the Captain. Thus the last one read:
“Received on S. S. Philadelphia, Latitude 42, 1 N., Longitude 47, 23 W., distance 2,099 (two thousand and ninety-nine) statute miles from Poldhu. Capt. A. R. Mills.”
This then was the beginning of sending messages across the ocean without wires, or cableless telegraphy, as you call it, and I was in on it.
