New Wireless Telephone.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 3, 1912:
Talking from Rome to Tripoli Accomplished with Moretti's Device.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    ROME, Nov. 2.— Riccardo Moretti, a man 26 years of age, and nephew of one of the most distinguished Italian doctors, Prof. Marchiafava, who attends both the Pope and the royal family, has succeeded after eight or nine years of experiment in making a wireless telephone which has worked admirably between the military wireless telegraph station at Rome and Tripoli, voices being perfectly clear and easily recognizable.
    Signor Moretti, who is extremely modest and retiring, was trained as a doctor, but has always had a passion for physics. He says that the first suggestion of his discoveries came from the wonderful achievements of Marconi in telegraphy, but, while wireless telegraphy has been brought to a high pitch of perfection, wireless telephony had remained unaccomplished as yet.
    Signor Moretti's device consists of a generator of continuous electric oscillations, working with a microphone, which he has developed to use in his own system. With the apparatus he has made such a successful demonstration before the Ministers of War and the Navy that the latter decided to install at once a complete radio-telephonic system between Rome and Lybia.
    At the same time a new aeroplane is announced, the invention of Signor Petacchia, who has spent most of his life as a waiter and as a prison warden.
    He calls it a multiplane, and it seems to be very simple in its mechanism. He asserts that it has a perfect equilibrium and cannot be upset by the highest wind or the quickest turns, thus eliminating many of the greatest dangers to which aviators are exposed.
    Thus far his experiments have been successful, and Signor Petacchia has been able to stay up with a machine in the midst of heavy storms of rain and hail without difficulty.