Wireless 4,000 Miles.

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 18, 1913:
Army Men Witness Direct Transmission from Sayville to Germany.
    SAYVILLE, L.I., Jan. 17.— A wireless message, the first on record between the station here and the one at Nauen Tower, near Berlin, Germany, was sent this afternoon without relay, while the United States Government Inspectors were at the plant looking it over. The distance between the two points is more than 4,000 miles.
    The plant is owned by the Tellefunken Wireless Company. It is 500 feet high, and was built a year ago. Heretofore it has been necessary to relay messages to Berlin and other European points, but the experts have been at work for some time to perfect the system so that direct messages could be transmitted.
    Among those in the visiting party were Commander W. H. G. Bullard, U.S.N.; Lieut. Commander A. W. Todd, U.S.N.; Frederick A, Kolster of the Bureau of Standards, Washington; Robert Marriott of the Department of Commerce and Labor, Guy Hill of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, W. H. Terrell, Radio Inspector; A. E. Seelig of New York, H. Boehme and R. H. Armstrong of San Francisco.