Sunday Gazette-Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 143

he local News I'VE BEEN GOT TDOCH WTHT WORLP. I HAVENS BEENTD BEAUW TWO Marconi's Unsung "IHATS N0T NEWS. I HEARD THAT ABOOT SARAH TWO WEEK3 AGO THE KNCTtlNQ CLUB." 11 NOlHNS MUCH, BLANCHE. MABEL 3 A BLONDE SEE. AkBERTAS POT ANOTHER WENT IN HER REAR TENDER.

THAT'S ABOUT IT fHDM HERE- "VOU HOME FROM THE OFFICE ALREAPYf "NO NEWS, NO RUMORS? VYHAT DOES POAU.WW ATXUR OFFICE? JUST srr AHOUNP COINS NOTHIMS?" "BESIDES THE COMBINATION OF STEREO SOUNP. FOREIGN, POLICE AND FIR DEPARTMENT NNWE AVSO HAVE AMELIA HERE. 14 BY WILLIAM C. BLIZZARD Utjtml says Loomb strung on ffcb strMt in Terra Alto. "Will you tell us, Johnny," asked the teacher, "who invented wireless telegraphy and the radio?" "Sure," said Johnny, "it was Mahlon Loomis." The teacher's mouth fell open.

"Johnny," she commanded sternly, "don't be silly! Everybody knows it was Marconi. Who ever heard of Mahton Loomis?" But Johnny was right and teacher was wrong. A trouble with the world, as Mark Twain once observed, is that too many people know so much that ain't so. If teacher never heard of Mahlon Loomis, and you never heard It Mahlon Loomis, this only proves that injustice exists and often good men as well as bad never receive their due. According to a group of author; kiefi in the field, Mahlon Loomis transmitted the first wireless signals almost 10 years before Marconi was born.

Of great interest to West Virginians is the fact that Loomis per- Tormed of his experiments in the Mountain State, lived in Terra Alta with his brother was the first judge of the sixth circuit court and a founding father of West Virginia, and is buried in the Terra Alta cemetery. E. Loomis Schoeber, who appears to Tnrve been Mahlon Loomis's niece and George's daughter, gave the town of Tata Alta its name in 1885, a year before Mahlon Loomis died. Before IMS, Terra AMa was known as "Cranberry Summit." The i experiments of Mahlon Loomis, however unknown to the general pub- tic, have been known to specialists for years. They are described briefly in sucn standard references as the Encyclopedia Americana and the Dictionary of American Biography.

But such standard sources, while admitting Loomis's inventive genius, do not assert that he deserves credit for the invention of the wireless telegraphy which led to radio, radar, television, and other communication marvels. "His distinction," they say, "is that be was the first among the experimenters in wireless telegraphy to use the aerial." This is damning with faint praise, according to Dr. Otis B. Young, director of atomic and capacitor research at Southern Illinois University. Young is backed by many other college vigfeMon.

iwi tte active membinfaip tbe giijigl sity chanter Sifnu fc honorary phyaia Loomis as tbe inventor if radio eommmlca tion. Formidable clain to fame has also come fMBtlmMMf AMiiby-at Washington, D. Jtyear4id retired Navy commander and radto enfkwer -who erected wireless stations to Philadelphia in 1899 based on the Loomis and has been working with radio ever since. Appleby has written a book on a Loomis's life and experiments which may be in print by this time, pubtatted through the Mahlon Loomis Memorial Foundation of Washington, D. C.

Appleby not hesitate to assert the following scientific patent for a syytero. of wircteas. dcnxiOHh'gtJoii Of wireless signaiing. to emptey a vertical antenna and ground. to employ "spark" signaling.

First to employ a ior antenna support to employ Mfioow for antenna support. to vspedfy an Vindicator" in his receiving systeni' (now called fte voiue of efectricaJ agreement between bis sending and his receiving ayatem (atw AppJelJy, wtd etiwrs had a joint resolution introduced before the nth Congrew memoriaiizmg Dr. Loooni the 100th an- nk'ersary his Vk-ginia mperiment which, they say, was the world's first demonstration of wireless telegraphy, ft this they had some help from the Americaa Dental Asm. Why the ADA? Not, as you might think, in order to put teeth into the resolution Mahlon Loomis dentiat, and the ADA it paying him the honor of professional courtesy. The resolution memorializing Mahlon Loomis has had rough going.

This year, it died in that legislative graveyard, the Senate judiciary committee; The hard hick which followed Loomis in'We is apparently unrelenting in death. Those supporting Loomis's achievements rely in to the grandson, the Rose. his ni-i'-t' 20, 1864: "I have i-t et. process rtions may be "1 any wires. the earth.

iii As early pheric electi otherwise coir, ej Fall River a practical wireless trie ber. This deir.i miles east in Loudoun the ex'idence Loomis two kites. hills on a cl Each kite gauze about side, and feet of wire. was made a and another ji that it could circuit attached! It was demonf meter with the of the second-k the galvanometj was deflected cision as if it nary Loomis though no of nor any sages, yet tinct as Loomis rel the expcrinr-nt Pomeroy of A. Bingham of I ftese influentiall doing, for he nj (Please 6m CHARLESTON, W.

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