Wireless Revolution Near.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 11, 1912:
Eiffel Tower Chief Predicts Great Forward Steps.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Friday, Oct. 11.— The Morning Post's Paris correspondent has interviewed Commandant Ferrie, Chief of the wireless telegraphic service, on the Eiffel Tower, and one of the best-known European experts. He said there was every reason to believe that most important discoveries were impending, which were likely to be of the utmost value in improving wireless communication.
    He agreed entirely with Edouard Branly that the researches of several scientists were converging, as it were, toward a single point. It was reasonable, therefore, to expect important progress in the near future.
    With reference to Berthenod's wireless sparkless system, he said:
    "The main advantage lies in the fact that neighboring posts are far less likely to interfere with one another's communications, since the machines directly producing regular and continuous vibrations can obviously be tuned to one another producing less irregular and jerky vibrations than those given off by a series of sparks.
    "Moreover, this system promises to cut out some of the intermediate machinery, and this greater simplicity should result in a corresponding reduction in the cost.
    "Theoretically the problem of wireless telegraphy without sparks is certainly solved, but for the moment, pending further investigation, it is advisable to suspend judgment regarding how far this solution can be regarded as entirely satisfactory from a practical point of view."
    He said he had seen a small sparkless apparatus give excellent results, but had not had it under inspection a sufficiently long time to be able to pronounce a final and definite judgment.