Abstract
WHEN Mr. Marconi first came over to England in 1896, Mr. Swinton was the means by which he was introduced to Sir William Preece, and the latter, having just then come to the conclusion that his methods of inductive and conductive telegraphy—with which he had been attempting to effect communication with lightships—were unworkable, set the Post Office to work with Mr. Marconi, Sir John Gavey having charge of the experiments. It might seem strange, as Prof. S. P. Thompson had pointed out in NATURE, that Sir William Preece missed the possibilities of Sir Oliver Lodge's Hertzian-wave experiments, but took up Mr. Marconi with practically the same system. But Sir William Preece had always been particularly sympathetic to the young, and Sir Oliver Lodge had not approached him directly.
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