Read the following excerpt from the essay "The Value of Wireless" by T.C. Bridges and H.H. Tillman. The passage has ten numbered blanks. Choose the most appropriate option for the blank named in the…

Read the following excerpt from the essay "The Value of Wireless" by T.C. Bridges and H.H. Tillman. The passage has ten numbered blanks. Choose the most appropriate option for the blank named in the question.

In 1900 a few of the steamship companies were already beginning to ...(Blank 1)... wireless in their vessels, and one ship so ...(Blank 2)... was the Royal Belgian steamer Princess Clementine. On January, 1901, this steamship saw the barque Medora, of Stockholm, hard and fast on the Ratel Bank, and being herself unable to help sent a wireless message to La Panne, on the Belgian coast. La Panne ...(Blank 3)... with Ostend and within an hour a tug was on its way; it succeeded in saving the Medora from her ...(Blank 4)... position. A few hours' delay, and the Medora would have been a hopeless wreck.
As we have already mentioned, passenger-carrying ships were beginning to install wireless as early as the year 1900, and before long things began to happen which proved the enormous value of the new ...(Blank 5).... We have spoken of the ...(Blank 6)... of the Medora through the use of wireless. A little later the captain of a big ...(Blank 7)... on its way to America became aware that he had ...(Blank 8)... a gang of card-sharpers who were swindling passengers. As he approached New York he sent a wireless message to the authorities. Detectives came out by tug and met the ship, the members of the gang were ...(Blank 9)..., and to their ...(Blank 10)... disgust found themselves arrested and presently sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.

Choose the most appropriate option for Blank 1 in the passage.