Talk:Adolf Slaby

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Slaby and the Imperial German Navy attempted to invade the Marconi station at Glace Bay, Newfoundland:
This chapter is not part of the article on german Wikipedia. One of the citations given (3) is a novel and probably not very reliable. The other one is not available online.

It is very unlikely that Slaby undertook a trip on a German navy vessel to investigate a Marconi station on New Foundland, since he had had access to Marconi stations in the United Kingdom before he performed his experiments in Germany. There is no date given for this incident. None of the numerous articles on the web mentiones such a trip, and nothing even similar is mentioned in his book "Entdeckungsfahrten in den elektrischen Ozean" ("Discovery trips into the electric ocean") where he describes his early experiments very detailed.

Also, in the biography "Father Marconi" there is a very similar text:

"A German fleet anchored, on a hot summer day, in the dan gerous waters of Glace Bay and its Admiral came ashore at Table Head with thirty officers. When Vyvyan saw that they were heading for the station, he met them at the gate in the barbed wire with cool drinks. This was a technique he commonly em ployed to discourage reporters and the curious sightseers who constantly turned up. It did not suffice for the Germans.

The refreshments, he wrote, "were declined and the Admiral stated that they had come to see over the station. I informed him that I should be delighted to show them over. Doubtless he had a letter of authority from Marconi or the Directors of the Marconi Company authorizing me to do so. He said he had not ; I expressed my regrets that without authority it was impossible for me to admit him. He became very brusque and informed me that His Imperial Majesty would be much annoyed. Again I ex pressed my regrets and he and his staff went off, again declining any refreshment.

"The fleet stayed at anchor and I kept a watchman on one of the towers to report. Next day boats put out from the fleet and in due course a crowd of about ISO sailors arrived at the gates. Apparently there were no officers with them; they pushed past me in an unruly mob. I informed them admission was forbidden and if they persisted I would use force to prevent them entering the station. At the time, we had a considerable body of work men employed on certain construction work, and when they saw these men it seemed to strike them that there might be trouble. A whistle was blown and they all went out, a disciplined force, and no longer an unruly crowd of men."

https://archive.org/stream/myfathermarconi010955mbp/myfathermarconi010955mbp_djvu.txt

This is a much more detailed description of this incident, and Slaby is not mentioned in any way. I have severe doubts whether there are any reliable sources giving proof that Slaby took part in this incident in person or was involved in it. I would recommend to eliminate this section from the Slaby article.

PS. Accidentally I found an excerpt of "Death on the Lizard" on Google Books. Obviously the citation in this article is taken from this book. However, Slaby is NOT mentioned as a participant of this incident. The book mentions the "Slaby-d'Arco system" a few lines before but Slaby's person is not mentioned in any way.

https://books.google.de/books?id=lP6nMgvlxmIC&pg=PT80&lpg=PT80&dq=vyvyan+slaby&source=bl&ots=jWMvyXrowR&sig=6LkXv89hyNmbYhPk-des__bBCj4&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAWoVChMI89Ogyc-IyAIVAm4UCh0BWg_E#v=onepage&q=vyvyan%20slaby&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.219.89.132 (talk) 17:17, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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