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tance of a high, well insulated aerial and a good ground.

On arriving in London this boy, with the big idea in the back of his head and a lot of business ability in front of it, went to Sir William Pierce

who was then at the head of the British Post Office and offered to give him a demonstration of his new wireless telegraph. As Sir William had long been interested in the possibility of wireless telegraphy he was agreeable. The