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Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The invention that sparked the radio revolution

Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The invention that sparked the radio revolution

Weightman, Gavin

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Biographies GeneralTechnology & EngineeringGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0007130066
ISBN13: 9780007130061
Publisher: Harpercollins 360
Published: Mar 15 2004
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The intriguing story of how wireless was invented by Guglielmo Marconi - and how it amused Queen Victoria, saved the lives of the Titanic survivors, tracked down criminals and began the radio revolution.

Wireless was the most fabulous invention of the 19th century: the public thought it was magic, the popular newspapers regarded it as miraculous, and the leading scientists of the day (in Europe and America) could not understand how it worked. In 1897, when the first wireless station was established by Marconi in a few rooms of the Royal Needles Hotel on the Isle of Wight, nobody knew how far these invisible waves could travel through the 'ether', carrying Morse Coded messages decipherable at a receiving station. (The definitive answer was not discovered till the 1920s, by which time radio had become a sophisticated industry filling the airwaves with a cacaphony of sounds - most of it American.)

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