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Quite Dated, but Informative
I am not sure who the target audience was for this book, I presume it to be school aged children. It is a very easy reading book, if you can get over the old terminology. As an Amateur Radio operator myself, I found this to be interesting on the scientific level, not just for the information presented about Marconi's life.

An example of some of the old words used is the word "aerial" instead of antenna. In fact, at one point in the book the author makes a comment about "antennae as they were often called." Which, of course, now we use primarily instead of the word aerial.

Don't read the book for up to date radio lingo, nor to really learn about radio and its capabilities today. Rather, read it from the perspective of seeing what the world of radio thought about Marconi just a short time after his discoveries and death. ... Read more

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Good Biography
This is a great Biography of Marconi, who is the father of radio.I never read Marconi's story before - it was well worth the wait - the author did a fantastic job with Mr. Marconi's life and his adventures with wireless radio.

the Tesla thief, still glorified...?
Surprised that the book fails on a major point: to talk about the highly supportable contention that Marconi stole Tesla's technological ideas, since Marconi visited Tesla and since Tesla was such a "businessman innocent" that he let people root around in his papers for ideas as a friendship gesture.

Still, an intersting read on the early 20th century through various technological vingnettes about the effects of radio that you would find no where else--until a better book is published of course, in my opinion.

We learn much about aerials, but not much about inventions.
This book, at 291 pages, is a quick read.It can be read in about two hours.We learn that Marconi's main contribution was to combine Heinrich Hertz's invention of radio waves with Oliver Lodge's invention of the coherer.We learn of Marconi's discovery of radio waves bouncing off the upper atmosphere, an effect essential for trans-Atlantic radio waves (paves 53-55, 258).We learn of Marconi's "spark method" which worked better than Edison's jumping current method.We learn that it was actually David Hughes (pages 97-98) and Oliver Heaviside (pages 128-131), not Marconi, who built the first wireless.We also learn that Nathan Stubblefield was the inventor of a wireless that could transmit not just Morse code, but also voices and music.

Much of the book tells about Marconi's efforts at building higher aerials and scouting out locations to build aerials, e.g., on various ships, in Cape Cod, Newfoundland, or Santa Catalina Island.In fact, this is the major thrust of the book:scouting out locations for building aerials.The book should not have been called "Signor Marconi's Magic Box," since we learn nothing about the "spark method" or the "coherer" beyond their names.Instead, the book should have been called "Signor Marconi Builder of Aerials."The word "patent" occurs 19 times in the book, but here the word patent is just used in passing, and we learn nothing about the patents, or how they represented improvements over the earlier state of the radio art."Patent" does not even occur in the index.

The book spends a good deal of time utilizing literary devices, especially the literary device of describing the weather, and the literary device of naming personalities with little or no direct relevance to Marconi.For example, we are told that "on a misty morning three days later a Russian hospital ship sighted another vessel" (page 200). We learn that "the men who were working ran out into the snow in mad rejoicing" (page 146).We find that "day after day through the hot summer months of 1895 . . ."(page 16).We are told that "tens of thousands of chimneys filled the air with the sooty haze" (page 21).We read that "this was a deeply romantic corner of England, a treacherous rocky coast. . . where people still talked of lost bounties of wrecked . . . Spanish galleons" (page 72).We also read that "outside, his men braved the icy winds which blew small icebergs into Glace Bay" (page 100).Moreover, we learn about "out on the snowy wastes of Brant Rock . . ." (page 208).Additionally, we read that "in the summer heat the stony earth shimmers" (page 281) and that "a storm blew up from the northwest" (page 264).The author is a confirmed name-dropper.We learn the names of Marconi's competitors, and the names of Marconi's love interests, literary figures, sports figures, and political figures of the time (e.g., King Victor Emmanuel; Reginald Fessenden; Nevil Maskelyne; Frank Fayant; Alexander Popov; Gordon Bennett; Eugene Ducretet; Inez Milholland; Thomas Lipton; Lionel James; Rossini; Chopin; Arthur Conan Doyle; Frederick Treves; Amos Dolbear; Alaxandre Dumas; Nellie Melba; Beatrice O'Brien; Edmund Gurney; Frederic Myers; Leonore Piper; George Bernard Shaw; Joseph Pulitzer; and Cristina Bezza-Scali; Rudyard Kipling; Bob Fitzsimmons; Jim Jeffries; Jack Dempsey; Henry McClure; just to name a few).On and on and on goes the list of irrelevant names. The book devotes atleast ten times more space describing Marconi's romantic interests than describing the engineers who work for Marconi.

To conclude, the author Gavin Weightman provides us with a book having a misleading title (Signor Marconi's Magic Box) and a misleading subtitle (The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century).The book contains only a moderate amount of interesting material, but a huge amount of fluff.The book does not explain the nature of a coherer, a Herzian wave, or the spark method, and reveals very little about Marconi's collaborators and coworkers, essentially nothing about Marconi's business partners, and essentially nothing about what Marconi had actually invented.In striking contrast is Tom Lewis' book Empire of the Air.Tom Lewis covers the history of radio with the insight expected of somebody who is an electrical engineer having a J.D. and an M.B.A. Five stars to Tom Lewis' book Empire of the Air.

Like Early Wireless Itself: Useful, but Flawed
From the title, you might suppose this book to be a history of early wireless, with an emphasis on Marconi's work.And so it is, to some degree.It is much more a biography of Marconi, for whom Weightman has an evident fondness.But it is a weak biography, in that it does not delve into Marconi's life too deeply, or too long.Indeed, the book effectively ends (or rather, just stops) at the First World War, with a final chapter or two about the last years of Marconi's life 20 years later.And it's a somewhat incomplete story of early wireless, concentrating (understandably) mostly on Marconi's work, with only glimpses of the advances made by so many other pioneers.Still, it is an interesting and informative read, fleshing out the bare bones of the earliest years of an emerging technology.It just left me wondering what happened to the second half of the book.

Looking (and thinking) inside the box
The story of the development of wireless technology is complicated and surrounded by claim and counter claim. Marconi is undoubtedly the central figure of this story but the main characters are interwoven like the twisted pair wires that were replaced by the increasing use of telegraph communications.

Einstein has said that scientific advance is opaque with foresight, transparent with hindsight, and this book amply illustrates the point. It is easy to look back on the breakthroughs of Guiglielmo Marconi and belittle the impact. Yet much of the enormous advances at the end of the 20th century would not have been possible without Marconi (or rather the technology STARTED by Marconi's discoveries). Marconi was a strange mixture of modern and ancient, and did not understand the theoretical background of his advances. Nor does the reader need to understand the science of signal transmission to thoroughly enjoy the book. It is interesting and enlightening to see the attempts to rationalise how `radio' worked, particularly by some of his contemporaries. I suspect that some of our own imperfect understandings will be viewed with similar wonder when viewed from the other side of lucid explanations.

The story is generally well told, and is particularly effective when describing three Atlantic dramas in the years just before the First World War. The passengers rescued from the steam ships Republic and Titanic owed their rescue to both the technology, and to the seriously dedicated wireless operators. Indeed, the operators from the Titanic only ceased transmitting about 20 minutes before the vessel went down, and one of the pair perished. In the third drama, Dr Crippen was apprehended in New York after `escaping' on a trans-Atlantic voyage - the ship's captain recognised the man who had murdered his wife, and the `Marconi men' on board informed the authorities. Both English and French newspapers published the `chase', charting the positions of both Crippen's vessel, and that of the following Inspector Drew (in a faster vessel, which arrived first in New York).

Marconi's advances shine through the pages of the book, but even though it is not dwelt upon, Marconi as a man receives very much less favourable coverage. I suppose if he had been a `better' person, he would not have made the breakthroughs of which we are all grateful.

Peter Morgan (morganp@supanet.com) ... Read more

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Chapters: Guglielmo Marconi, Corrado Gini, Gabriele D'annunzio, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Primo Conti, Galeazzo Ciano, Benito Mussolini, Alois Hudal, Giovanni Gentile, Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals, Italo Balbo, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Indro Montanelli, Ettore Tolomei, Giorgio Almirante, Curzio Malaparte, Junio Valerio Borghese, Robert Michels, Rodolfo Graziani, Emilio de Bono, Edda Mussolini, Achille Starace, Olivia Rossetti Agresti, Giovanni Papini, Ugo Cavallero, Ettore Muti, Ardengo Soffici, Giuseppe Pagano, Giorgio Morandi, Amadeo Barletta Barletta, Dino Grandi, Giacomo Acerbo, Paolo Orano, Roberto Farinacci, Michele Bianchi, Giovanni Preziosi, Italo Gariboldi, Giorgio Perlasca, Giuseppe Bottai, Carlo Carrà, Alessandro Pavolini, Enrico Corradini, Agostino Rocca, Amerigo Dumini, Rita Zucca, Sergio Panunzio, Massimo Bontempelli, Cesare Maria de Vecchi, Ettore Bastico, Francesco Giunta, Domenico Pellegrini Giampietro, Giovanni Giuriati, Tullio Cianetti, Alfredo Rocco, Cesare Rossi, Carlo Costamagna, Fernando Mezzasoma, Guido Buffarini Guidi, Enzo Galbiati, Giorgio Pini, Piero Pisenti, Serafino Mazzolini, Ezio Maria Gray, Filippo Anfuso, Attilio Teruzzi, Dino Perrone Compagni, Roberto Forges Davanzati, Pino Romualdi, Augusto de Marsanich, Tullio Tamburini, Lando Ferretti, Ugo Spirito, Augusto Turati, Telesio Interlandi, Francesco de Pinedo, Vito Miceli, Carlo Scorza, Dino Alfieri, Mario Carli, Pietro Koch, Renato Ricci, Maurizio Maraviglia, Giovanni Marinelli, Aldo Vidussoni, Edmondo Rossoni, Arturo Michelini, Carlo Alberto Biggini, Edoardo Weber, Alberto de Stefani, Luigi Freddi, Alberto Pariani, Ferdinando Martini, Aldo Finzi, Luigi Capello, Pietro Caruso, Antonino Tringali-Casanova, Giuseppe Volpi, Ettore Ovazza, Agostino Lanzillo, Luigi Parrilli. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 426. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from mo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19283178 ... Read more

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Merging both his scientific and personal lives into one compelling history, author Degna Marconi recalls the turbulent existence of her father, Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the radio. Unable to gain admittance to a university, child prodigy Marconi instead set up a laboratory in his father's attic. These boyhood experiments led to the development of the radio. Marconi transmitted the first transatlantic wireless message in 1902. ... Read more

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My search for Marconi
For a long time, I have studied Marconi since I am an amateur radio operator. I have visited his two stations on Cape Cod and even wrote a short web article about the first message he sent from Cape Code to England. Yet I found much new information in this book. Some of the comments tied loose ends together for me. If you are interested in early radio or Marconi, I suggest you read this book. It is paperback book size, but has a vast amount of information and pictures written by someone who knew him well.

Degna Marconi: My Father, Marconi pub. Guernica
I was held captive by a book that is a generous tribute of a loving daughter to her Father, Guglielmo Marconi.Degna Marconi allows us an insight into a chapter in her family history, and introduces us to the science behind her Fathers' inventions, his passion, his single-mindedness, his genius.
Marconi grew up in Bologna, at the center of his Mother's world.Without formal schooling, bright and gifted Guglielmo was allowed to develop at his own pace.Inspired by a book on Benjamin Franklin, his imagination was fired up, and he started experimenting with electricity and passing signals across distances.Later as a young adult in Great Britain, Marconi together with a small group of dedicated and passionate men and scientists made his ideas a working reality.The rest is history, and we all are beneficiaries.
Last summer when I stayed at Cape Cod, I took a detour and a walk at South Wellfleet. Marconi Station is no longer there, but the display tells us of messages that were relayed for the first time over great distances, between Great Britain and America.One of the early demonstrations of importance of communicating over long distances was when the signals were received, informing the world of the tragedy of the maiden voyage of Titanic.
While most of us still grapple with understanding the way signals travel, the ideas and inventions of Guglielmo Marconi have become a life transforming reality.As a mother living in Melbourne, Australia, with a daughter in New York, and a daughter in London, I bow to the genius of Marconi.His work made it possible for us to remain close, it made the "tyranny of distance" more bearable.
This book is more interesting than any fiction.Degna Marconi writes with literary skill that is outstanding.
We are closer to understanding Guglielmo Marconi, the man, when we read his own words: "genius is gift of work continuously applied"
Recommended reading!

My father Marconi
Review: My father, Marconi

What magnificant reading this is! This book is a must for those who would agree that a good biography is incomparably more valuable than even a great work of fiction. Degna Marconi has succeeded in recording her father's life with both scrutiny and filial affection. She has maintained a very high level in every aspect: what she tells us about scientific evolution in its historical context is witty, precise and fascinating whereas her personal touch never errs on the side of biased family pride. She is as good an author as her father was a man of science!
This portrait of Marconi and his times at the beginning of the era of global communication is all the more interesing right now a hundres years after it all began.
"My father, Marconi" should be on the shelf of anyone who prefers reflection to mere consuption.

Susanne Regehr

Marconi's eldest daughter writes about her famous father.
If I had to pick the one book (and there are many out there) that best describes Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication, this would definitely be it. This book, written by Marconi's eldest daughter, Degna, is one of the best biographies I have ever read, in part because of the enormous charisma of the subject and in equal part because of the obvious respect and affection with which he is treated by Degna Marconi.
With only a vague idea of who Marconi was and fearing a book filled with technical jargon I picked up this book with a little suspicion at first. What a wonderful surprise! Degna Marconi's story was engaging from the first few paragraphs and rivetting up until the end. I quickly became engrossed in this fascinating story of a young man who, instead of going to university, spends his days experimenting with sending radio signals across his parents' garden, using homemade equipment and information gathered from scientific magazines, and then his tireless struggle to improve and promote his inventions which takes him first to London, then Canada, and the U.S. Degna Marconi presents the historical and scientific facts in a clear and concise manner without sacrificing detail. The work is both rewarding for those interested in science as well as those of us after a good read. Indeed, the charm of this book is that it reads like a real page turning novel. Loads of little anecdotes and commentaries colour the story without obscuring it. The reader gets a wonderful insight into a world of wealth and luxury, cut-throat competition and scientific innovation.
The book describes the novelty and excitement of Marconi's first experiments and then moves on to describe Marconi's struggles to patent his inventions, circumvent his ever more numerous competitors and expand the range and use of his technology. In fact, Marconi emerges not only as a brilliant scientist but above all as an energetic and resourceful entrepreneur. This account of Marconi's work to establish radio as a practical and useful alternative to other more established technologies (such as the telephone) is thrilling to read and is as relevant today as it was 100 years ago. I especially enjoyed reading about the heroic radio operator who continued sending S.O.S. signals from the sinking Titanic and about Marconi's long, lonely and often frustrating struggle to establish radio contact across the Atlantic.
Marconi's private life was no less exciting and tumultuous. The book's description of Marconi's love of the beautiful Beatrice O'Brien, his efforts to win over the undecided Beatrice and their wedding is entertaining and often humorous. The strain of Marconi's ever increasing work and fame on his family, the tragic divorce that neither he nor Beatrice really wanted and Marconi's complicated relationship with his children, especially his son Giulio, are all described with subtle and touching insight. Degna Marconi is also able to convey Marconi's charm and subtle sense of humour. Highly recommended.

A look through the eyes of a daughter
This book by Mrs Marconi was extremely touching; we know so much about Marconi the inventor, the public figure but what makes this book so original is that it was so clearly written by someone who knew him well and loved him even more. Set side by side are descriptions of his scientific breakthroughs and very intimate glimpses of him as a person, many of them humorous and understanding.

The book is also very well written, interesting but at the same time readable and enjoyable. I have lent my copy of the book to many of my friends. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1066 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This broad-based set surveys clothing, body adornment, and examines the origins of clothing, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress. It also presents information on representative costumes from a wide variety of historical eras, which are frequently the topic of student research. Topics range from the bustle, sari, and toga to Polyester and body piercing. The short entries explain the history of garments (necktie, codpiece, cocktail dress, bathing suit, burqua, Nehru jacket), techniques and manufactures (batik, dry cleaning, zipper, stone washing), body adornment (makeup, mask, tattoo, wig), and important persons and institutions (Coco Chanel, Edith Head, Yves Saint-Laurent, Fashion Institute of Technology). The longer essays provide cultural context: class, gender, sumptuary laws, costume design for stage and screen, advertising; fashion careers; ecclesiastical dress; military uniforms; etc. ... Read more

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Chapters: Enrico Fermi, Guglielmo Marconi, Camillo Golgi, Franco Modigliani, Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Rubbia, Giosuè Carducci, Grazia Deledda, Riccardo Giacconi, Dario Fo, Renato Dulbecco, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Mario Capecchi, Eugenio Montale, Salvatore Quasimodo, Emilio G. Segrè, Salvador Luria, Marconi Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Giulio Natta, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Daniel Bovet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 133. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: ; 25 April 1874 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" and was ennobled in 1924 as Marchese Marconi. Guglielmo Marconi Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Marconi was born near Bologna, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson Whiskey distillery. Marconi was educated in Bologna in the lab of Augusto Righi, in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero and, later, in Livorno. As a child Marconi did not do well in school. Baptized as a Catholic, he was also a member of the Anglican Church, being married into it; however, he still received a Catholic annulment. During his early years, Marconi had an interest in science and electricity. One of the scientific developments during this era came from Heinrich Hertz, who, beginning in 1888, demonstrated that one could produce and detect electromagnetic radiationnow generally known as "radio waves",...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12104 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: ; 25 April 1874 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" and was ennobled in 1924 as Marchese Marconi. Guglielmo Marconi Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Marconi was born near Bologna, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson Whiskey distillery. Marconi was educated in Bologna in the lab of Augusto Righi, in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero and, later, in Livorno. As a child Marconi did not do well in school. Baptized as a Catholic, he was also a member of the Anglican Church, being married into it; however, he still received a Catholic annulment. During his early years, Marconi had an interest in science and electricity. One of the scientific developments during this era came from Heinrich Hertz, who, beginning in 1888, demonstrated that one could produce and detect electromagnetic radiationnow generally known as "radio waves", at the time more commonly called "Hertzian waves" or "aetheric waves". Hertz's death in 1894 brought published reviews of his earlier discoveries, and a renewed interest on the part of Marconi. He was permitted to briefly study the subject under Augusto Righi, a University of Bologna physicist and neighbor of Marconi who had done research on Hertz's work. Righi had a subscription to The Electrician where Oliver Lodge p... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12104 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Braun, Adolf Raskin, Roberto Landell de Moura, Hugh Greene, Hans Bredow, Hans Mahle, Lee de Forest, Richard Kolb, Hans Flesch, Lisa Tetzner, Alexander Stepanowitsch Popow, Hans Günther Oesterreich, John Reith, 1. Baron Reith, August Kruckow, John Hibbett Dewitt, Fritz Ernst Bettauer, Allen Fairhall, Friedrich Bischoff, Ernst Feyerabend, John Henry Whitley, Reginald Fessenden, Klaus Neukrantz, Pierre Séguy, Oskar Czeija, Hans Fleischer, Hans Bodenstedt, Eugen Nesper, Felix Moor, Fritz Specht, Gustav Eichhorn, Hanso Schotanus à Steringa Idzerda, Otto Nußbaumer, Sophie Tschorn, Kurt Magnus, Hermann Stümpert, Ralph Bown, Wilhelm Kollhoff, Hugo Kirnbauer. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: ; 25 April 1874- 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" and was ennobled in 1924 as Marchese Marconi. Guglielmo Marconi Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Marconi was born near Bologna, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Protestant Irish wife, Annie Jameson, granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson Whiskey distillery. Marconi was educated in Bologna in the lab of Augusto Righi, in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero and, later, in Livorno. As a child Marconi did not do well in school. Baptized as a Catholic, he was also a member of the Anglican Church, being married into it; however, he still received a Catholic annulment. During his early years, Marconi had an interest in science and electricity. One of the scientific developments during this era came from Heinrich He...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: Juan Carlos I of Spain, Yuri Gagarin, Guglielmo Marconi, John Ambrose Fleming, Maximilian Kolbe, Eric Cole, Camille Papin Tissot, Christer Fuglesang, Artie Moore, Alex Comfort, Helen Sharman, Brian Rix, Baron Rix, Thomas Reiter, Ulf Merbold, Sergei Avdeyev, Reinhard Furrer, Bob Tomalski, George Sassoon, Friedrich Merz, Judica-Cordiglia Brothers, Hans Schlegel, Franz Viehböck, Ulrich Walter, Reinhold Ewald, Ernst Messerschmid, Kurt Carlsen, Karl Rothammel, Rupert Goodwins, Fred Judd. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 141. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: ; 25 April 1874 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" and was ennobled in 1924 as Marchese Marconi. Guglielmo Marconi Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Marconi was born near Bologna, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson Whiskey distillery. Marconi was educated in Bologna in the lab of Augusto Righi, in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero and, later, in Livorno. As a child Marconi did not do well in school. Baptized as a Catholic, he was also a member of the Anglican Church, being married into it; however, he still received a Catholic annulment. During his early years, Marconi had an interest in science and electricity. One of the scientific developments during this era came from Heinrich Hertz, who, beginning in 1888, dem...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12104 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Stuart Mill, Rudyard Kipling, Guglielmo Marconi, John Cleese, Andrew Carnegie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Fridtjof Nansen, C. P. Snow, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Arthur Balfour, J. M. Barrie, Jan Smuts, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, James Anthony Froude, David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Clement Freud, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Andrew Neil, Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby, Nicky Campbell, Nicholas Parsons, David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Donald Findlay, Learie Constantine, Alan Coren, Frank Muir, Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay, Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, Wilfred Grenfell, Charles Neaves, Katharine Whitehorn, John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, James Stuart, Kevin Dunion, John Rothenstein, Theodore Martin, Rector of the University of St Andrews, Stanley Adams, Robert Macgregor Mitchell, Simon Pepper. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 356. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26308 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 451 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874 ? 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". Later in life, Marconi was an active Italian Fascist and an apologist for their ideology and actions such as the attack by Italian forces in Ethiopia. ... Read more

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Chapters: Karl Ferdinand Braun, Marconi Electronic Systems, Somerset, New Jersey, Invention of Radio, Marconi Station, Marconi Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, South Foreland Lighthouse, Telent, Gec-Marconi Scientist Deaths Conspiracy Theory, Marconi Research Centre, Gioia Marconi Braga. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 88. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Within the history of radio, several people were involved in the invention of radio and there were many key inventions in what became the modern systems of wireless. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Closely related, radio was developed along with two other key inventions, the telegraph and the telephone. During the early development of wireless technology and long after its wide use, disputes persisted as to who could claim credit for the invention of radio. The matter was important for economic, political and nationalistic reasons. Several different electrical, magnetic, or electromagnetic physical phenomena can be used to transmit signals over a distance without intervening wires. The various methods for wireless signal transmissions include: All these physical phenomena, as well as more speculative concepts such as conduction through air, have been tested for purposes of communication. Early researchers may not have understood or disclosed which physical effects were responsible for transmitting signals. Early experiments used the existing theories of the movement of charged particles through an electrical conductor. There was no theory of electromagnetic wave propagation to guide experiments before Maxwell's treatise and its verification by Hertz and others. Capacitive and inductive coupling systems today are used only for short-range special purpose systems. The physical phenomenon used generally today fo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3800477 ... Read more

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Chapters: List of Irish People, Guglielmo Marconi, John Philip Holland, Alexander Mitchell, James Stephens, Camille Papin Tissot, C. Y. O'connor, Richard Hieram Sankey, Peter Rice, Robert Mallet, William Gamble, John Killaly, Percy French, Harry Ferguson, John Richardson Wigham, William Dargan, Ernest Macartney de Burgh, Robert Manning, John Perry, Phil Hardy, Charles Dickinson West, Thomas Higinbotham, Albert Henry Hime, James Beatty, Aeneas Coffey, Guy Maunsell, John Coghlan, Trevor Whittaker, Thomas Mcloughlin, Francis Webb Sheilds, George Fosbery Lyster, John Oldham. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 168. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: ; 25 April 1874 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" and was ennobled in 1924 as Marchese Marconi. Guglielmo Marconi Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Marconi was born near Bologna, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson Whiskey distillery. Marconi was educated in Bologna in the lab of Augusto Righi, in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero and, later, in Livorno. As a child Marconi did not do well in school. Baptized as a Catholic, he was also a member of the Anglican Church, being married into it; however, he still received a Catholic annulment. During his early years, Marconi had an interest in science and electricity. One of the scientific de...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12104 ... Read more