Wireless Without Masts.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 16, 1913:
Italian Expects to Communicate with New York by a New Device.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    PARIS, April 15.— By means of the invention of an Italian engineer, Galetti, it is hoped that within ten days it will be possible to communicate by wireless from Chambéry, in the southeast of France, to New York. A wireless station has been erected on a high cliff in the village of Leschauz, near Chambéry.
    Dispensing with antennae, Galetti has set up two posts eight meters (about 26 feet 3 inches) high. These are connected by a wire from which a series of other wires 900 meters long (about 2,952 feet) converge to the operator's cabin at the foot of the cliff. Galetti obtained authority to test his system from the French Post Office department, which, working in co-operation with Italy and the United States, expects eventually to exploit the Leschauz station for the purposes of direct communication with New York. Galetti expresses satisfaction with the preliminary trials.