19 OCTOBER 1907, Page 3

Thursday was a date of possibly epoch-making significance in the

development of wireless telegraphy, the Transatlantic service between the Marconi stations at Clifden (Galway) and Cape Breton (Nova Scotia) being formally inaugurated on that day. For the first week or so the service will be confined to Press messages, after which the Marconi Company state, that they will be ready to transmit private messages at the rate of fivepence per word. A sheaf of congratulatory telegrams was successfully despatched from both sides on Thursday, the speed attained so far being about thirty words per minute; and the important announcement is made that messages can be transmitted both ways simultaneously by the adoption of, a different method of " tuning " at the two ends.