Send A Wireless Through To Berlin.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 15, 1913:
First Message from Sayville, L.I., Read Clearly at German Station — Little Power Used.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, July 14.— Regular wireless communication between Germany and the United States has been brought appreciably nearer by successful experiments just conducted between the German Telefunken Company's station at Sayville, L.I., and the great central station at Nauen, near Berlin.
    For the first time on record telegrams totaling twenty-eight words were transmitted from Sayville to Nauen by means of Count Arco's high-frequency apparatus.
    Still more remarkable was the fact that only six kilowatts of power were required, while recently for the transmission of mere sounds from Nauen to America more than 100 kilowatts were necessary.
    The Telefunken Company informs The New York Times that this dispatch is the first news that America will have that the messages, which were sent last Saturday, were clearly and safely received at Nauen.
    The wireless tower at Sayville, L.I., is owned by the Atlantic Communication Company of 90 West Street. The operator of the station declined last night to discuss the Saturday experiments, following the policy established at the station from the first.
    Considerable interest was aroused in August of last year, when the plant at Sayville was still in the process of construction, by a dispatch from Washington which said that the station was being observed by the Navy Department and the Department of Commerce and Labor because the powerful wireless station, practically dominating New York Harbor, was reported to be controlled by a corporation under the influence of the German Government. The manager said at that time that his company had no connection with the German Government, and that while there was German capital in the enterprise, the German capitalists were interested only in the same way that English capitalists might be in the Marconi Company.
    It was reported from London on May 10 that the wireless station at Nauen had succeeded in establishing some communication with the station at Sayville at a distance of over 4,000 miles. As long ago as November, 1911, Marconi sent the first wireless dispatch from Italy in the form of greetings to The New York Times. It crossed 4,000 miles of space.