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...virtually a duplicate of the set which Inventor Marconi, who is a Papal Marchese as well as an Italian Senator, gave to the Pope. His Holiness now can radio-talk directly with his recently renovated summer home at Castel Gandolfo 14 miles away, and no one can listen in. Cost of operating the equipment is no more than the cost of keeping a 30-watt incandescent bulb alight...
Guglielmi Marconi, father of radio, Roman Senator, the papal marchese who built Vatican City's radio station, wants to give his good friend the Pope an inviolable means of communication between the Vatican and the remodeled papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. A system using extremely short radio waves would suffice. Such waves would be relatively cheap to produce. They may be concentrated into a straight, pencil-like beam like a spotlight. But for utility in signaling there must be no obstacle between transmitter and receiver. Hence the transmitter may not be beyond the receiver's terrestrial horizon...
...Since Castel Gandolfo is invisible from the Vatican, to oblige the Pope Signer Marconi was obliged to use reflectors or to develop a system of "bending" short waves or somehow shooting them out in a curve. Last week he announced that he had done so, that he and his collaborator, the Marchese Luigi Salari had communicated over a distance of 167 miles on 57-cm. (less than 2-ft.) waves. Other radio engineers read his statement with wonder and respect, awaited details...
...Pope expected to listen in. Last week he quashed all talk of his taking an extended vacation from the Vatican. He would motor, he said, to his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo which is being reconditioned not for himself but for his successors...
...motoring, for he has many automobiles. He has also famed radio Station HVJ, a telephoto service, a new elevator to replace the Vatican's old hydraulic lift. Cows used to browse in the Vatican gardens, but these along with the Vatican horses are to be sent out to Castel Gandolfo in the Alban hills. Cosy, chummy modernity is the note; but the Swiss Guards still parade in the outfits Michelangelo designed-for them...