The original version of this article misspelled Francis J. McCarty's last name as "McCarthy".
New York Times, November 30, 1903, page 1:
BOY'S TALE OF INVENTION.
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F. J. McCarty of San Francisco Claims Success in Wireless Telephoning.
Special to The New York Times.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.--Francis J. McCarty, a fifteen-year-old boy of this city, has, it is asserted, invented a system of wireless telephoning which he has tested and found practicable for sending messages four miles.
When thirteen years old McCarty entered a dry goods house as a clerk, and his employer helped him to buy books and to make electrical experiments. He first, it is stated, began developing the wireless telephone in his own home, and recently he raised a thirty-foot pole on top of his house, and by the aid of another pole four miles away he set up communication. He says:
"I used the Hertzian wave principle as a basis for my investigations, and the fact that I have telephoned over four miles proves that my theory is correct."