Wireless balloon telegraphy

Major Edgar Russel - assistant to the chief signal officer of the US Army, who was one of the passengers in the signal Corps balloon which made a flight on May 13, from Washington D.C. to Patuxent, MD - said that the wireless experiments conducted during the flight were highly successful and will be continued. Russel is quoted as saying: "I think that I can safely predict that wireless telegraphy to and from a balloon can be used in war. This means that I am sure that we will shortly perfect an apparatus that can be safely and successfully used in both receiving and sending messages from a balloon to any station within a radius of many miles."