Wireless telephoneMusic in Cyberspace John Logie BairdFootballTV / Games MELBA SINGS BY WIRELESS. COMPLETE SUCCESS OF A "DAILY MAIL" TEST. HEARD IN PARIS AND BERLIN. 1,000 MILES RADIUS. MELBA'S "MOST WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE." FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Dame Nellie Melba sang to the world by wireless telephone last night at the invitation of The Daily Mail. Dame Nellie Melba The concert was given at Chelmsford, and the audience included all "listeners-in" within a radius of 1,000 miles. The singer's glorious voice was clearly heard in Paris and Berlin and at the Hague, and messages from listeners-in in all parts of England record the success of this unique and wonderful concert. CHELMSFORD, Tuesday Night. In a stone-floored room with white-washed walls in the great works of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company here, Dame Nellie Melba, the famous prima donna, this evening had what she told me was "the most wonderful experience of my career." At the invitation of The Daily Mail she sang to the world on the wireless telephone. Her beautiful voice was directed into a little microphone on an adjustable stand, and it went out to infinity with that crystal-like clarity of enunciation characteristic of it. It was a remarkable scene. Outside in the roadway a crowd, silent and eager to hear the great singer, was collected. The police requisitioned "to keep order" were entirely unnecessary and, be it said, were as interested in what was going on in the stone-floored room as anyone else in the assembly. Inside, a grand piano was close by the transmitter and the carpet where Dame Nellie Melba stood was rolled up lest the sound of her voice should be interfered with. "HOME, SWEET HOME." The prima donna began with a long trill. "My 'Hallo!' to the world," as she called it. Then followed songs in English, French, and Italian, all of them swelling out into space through the mysterious electric force which made the unique experiment heard within a 1,000 miles radius of Chelmsford. Dame Nellie Melba was so fascinated by her experience and what she had previously seen of the machinery - glass valves that magnified her voice 100 times before it escaped to space and great electrical coils that she at once volunteered to sing more than her set programme. "Chant Venitien," by M. Bemberg, was her first encore. "Nymphes et Silvains" was repeated as her second. Even then she was not content to stop, so great was her enthusiasm. "I must sing 'God Save The King,'" she exclaimed, and once more the warning to the world to stand by went out. "I have enjoyed it most tremendously," she told me when she had finished and Chelmsford had closed down. "It is perfectly marvellous. The microphone seems a very small thing to sing in the world through, and wireless seems to me a sort of wizardry." It was a wonderful half-hour. Art and science joined hands, and the world "listening-in" must have counted every minute of it precious. HOW PARIS HEARD. SO CLEAR THAT GRAMOPHONE RECORD WAS MADE. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. PARIS, Tuesday. We heard Dame Nellie Melba's voice tonight in Paris, not only through ordinary telephone receivers, but also ringing loud and clear across an open courtyard. The French Radio Electric Company, of 79 Boulevard Haussmann, had attached an aluminium trumpet to a resonant amplifying apparatus. Out of this her voice came as plainly and with the same quality as if from a gramophone record. Ten people gathered round the machine. The receiving apparatus was made up with an aerial of the size that is used in ships. The experiment began with startling clearness. The trumpet was in position on the receiver and the whole party who were waiting to hear the concert were in the next room. Representatives of the Pathe Film Company made a film record of the scene. Meanwhile the engineers of the French Radio Electric company had switched the sound through another line into the receiver of a gramophone, which recorded Dame Nellie's voice on its was disc. Before she had finished singing the first part of her song it was being reproduced on the gramophone, so that one heard her voice as it was away in Essex and the reproduction of it at the same time. AT BERLIN AND THE HAGUE. Dame Nellie Melba was clearly audible at Holland's News Bureau Wireless station at the Hague. She was heard with quite extraordinary clearness at the receiving station of the German Telephone Company at Gelgow, near Potsdam, also at the wireless station at Eilvefe, near Hanover.