An edition of Signor Marconi's magic box (2003)

Signor Marconi's magic box

the most remarkable invention of the 19th century & the amateur inventor whose genius sparked a revolution

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An edition of Signor Marconi's magic box (2003)

Signor Marconi's magic box

the most remarkable invention of the 19th century & the amateur inventor whose genius sparked a revolution

1st Da Capo Press ed.
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The world at the turn of the 20th century was in the throes of "Marconi-mania" - brought on by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by a dapper and eccentric figure (who would one day win the newly minted Nobel Prize) at the centre of it all. At a time when the telephone, telegraph and electricity made the whole world wonder just what science would think of next, the startling answer had come in 1896 in the form of two mysterious wooden boxes containing a device one Guglielmo Marconi had rigged up to transmit messages "through the ether". It was the birth of the radio, and no scientist in Europe or America, not even Marconi himself, could at first explain how it worked. It just did. And no one knew how far these radio waves could travel, until 1903, when a message from President Theodore Roosevelt to the king of England flashed from Cape Cod to Cornwall clear across the Atlantic. This volume is a rich portrait of the man and his era - and a captivating tale of science and scientists, business and businessmen. There are stories of British blowhards, American con artists - and Marconi himself: a character par excellence, who eventually winds up a virtual prisoner of his worldwide fame and fortune.

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Da Capo Press
Language
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Pages
312

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Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century & the Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution
September 21, 2004, Da Capo Press
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Cambridge, MA
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
621.384/092, B
Library of Congress
TK5739.M3 W455 2003, TK6545

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 312 p. :
Number of pages
312

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3319358M
Internet Archive
signormarconisma00weig
ISBN 10
0306812754
LCCN
2004270582
OCLC/WorldCat
52924319
Library Thing
456154
Goodreads
2184955

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On a winter's evening in 1896 a brougham, a four-wheeled cab drawn by a single horse, left the fashionable stuccoed terraces of west London and headed eastwards along the dirt roads and cobbled streets of the capital, which glistened in the gaslight under a light rain.
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