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Guglielmo Marconi



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  1. ^ a b "Guglielmo Marconi: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909"
  2. ^ Physicsworld.com, "Guglielmo Marconi: radio star", 2001
  3. ^ Robert McHenry, "Guglielmo Marconi," in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1993.
  4. ^ Williams, H. S., & Williams, E. H. (1910). Every-day science. New York: Goodhue Company. Page 54.
  5. ^ Marconi delineated his 1895 apparatus in his Nobel Award speech. See: Marconi, "Wireless Telegraphic Communication: Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1909." Nobel Lectures. Physics 1901-1921. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1967: 196-222. Page 198.
  6. ^ In the beginning of 1894, Nikola Tesla was transmitting to a distance of 50 miles from New York City to West Point. See the PBS website, "Marconi and Tesla: Who invented radio?" (ed. this is noted as having been accomplished in Leland's book concerning Tesla's "Work with Alternating Currents")
  7. ^ Leland I. Anderson, Priority in the Invention of Radio — Tesla vs. Marconi, Antique Wireless Association monograph, 1980, examining the 1943 decision by the US Supreme Court holding the key Marconi patent invalid (9 pages). (21st Century Books)
  8. ^ This fact was known to many as, in 1893, Tesla stated in the widely known "On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena" speech which was delivered before the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, in February, and before the National Electric Light Association, St. Louis, in March, that "One of the terminals of the source would be connected to Earth [as a electric ground connection ...] the other to an insulated body of large surface".
  9. ^ Marconi did acknowledge this later in his Nobel Award speech. See: Marconi, "Wireless Telegraphic Communication: Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1909." Nobel Lectures. Physics 1901-1921. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1967: 196-222. Page 206.
  10. ^ Alfred Thomas Story, The Story of Wireless Telegraphy. 1904. Page 58.
  11. ^ John J. O'Neill, Prodigal Genius:The Life of Nikola Tesla. Ives Washburn, New York, 1944
  12. ^ BBC Wales, "Marconi's Waves"
  13. ^ Helgesen, Henry N., “Wireless Goes to Sea: Marconi's Radio and SS Ponce”, Sea History (no. Spring 2008): 122 
  14. ^ United States Naval Institute, Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute. The Institute, 1899. Page 857.
  15. ^ Page, Walter Hines, and Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908. Page 9625
  16. ^ Fessenden and Marconi: Their Differing Technologies and Transatlantic Experiments During the First Decade of this Century
  17. ^ "Marconi and the History of Radio".
  18. ^ John S. Belrose, "Fessenden and Marconi: Their Differing Technologies and Transatlantic Experiments During the First Decade of this Century". International Conference on 100 Years of Radio -- 5-7 September 1995.
  19. ^ Margaret Cheney, Tesla, Man Out of Time, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981
  20. ^ Margaret Cheney and Robert Uth, Tesla: Master of Lightning, Barnes&Noble, 1999.
  21. ^ John P. Eaton & Charles A. Haas Titanic - Triumph and Tragedy, A Chronicle in Words and Pictures. 1994
  22. ^ Court of Inquiry Loss of the S.S. Titanic 1912
  23. ^ Marconi’s late-1895 transmission of signals was for around a mile. This was small compared to Tesla's early-1895 transmissions of up to 50 miles. For more see "Nikola Tesla On His Work with Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power", Leland I. Anderson, Twenty First Century Books, 2002, pp. 26-27.
  24. ^ "The Guglielmo Marconi Case; Who is the True Inventor of Radio".
  25. ^ Gianni Isola, "Italian radio: History and Historiography"; Special Issue: Italian Media Since World War II. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, August, 1995
  26. ^ U.S. Supreme Court, "Marconi Wireless Telegraph co. of America v. United States". 320 U.S. 1. Nos. 369, 373. Argued April 9-12, 1943. Decided June 21, 1943.
  27. ^ a b Wireless Telegraph co. of America v. United States.
  28. ^ William John Baker, "History Of The Marconi Company 1874-1965". 1996. 416 pages. Page 296
  29. ^ EPN, "The Unseen Marconi"
  30. ^ George P. Oslin, The Story of Telecommunications. 1992. 507 pages. Page 294.
  31. ^ Gerald Sussman, Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age. 1997. Page 90.

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Further reading

Relatives and company publications
  • Marconi, Degna, My Father, Marconi, James Lorimer & Co, 1982. ISBN 0-919511-14-7
  • Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Year book of wireless telegraphy and telephony, London : Published for the Marconi Press Agency Ltd., by the St. Catherine Press / Wireless Press. LCCN 14017875 sn 86035439
Other
  • Ahern, Steve (ed), Making Radio (2nd Edition) Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2006.
  • Aitken, Hugh G. J., Syntony and Spark: The Origins of Radio, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1976. ISBN 0-471-01816-3
  • Aitken, Hugh G. J., The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-691-08376-2.
  • Anderson, Leland I., Priority in the Invention of Radio — Tesla vs. Marconi
  • Baker, W. J., A History of the Marconi Company, 1970.
  • Clark, Paddy, "Marconi's Irish Connections Recalled," published in ";100 Years of Radio," IEE Conference Publication 411, 1995.
  • Coe, Douglas and Kreigh Collins (ills), Marconi, pioneer of radio, New York, J. Messner, Inc., 1943. LCCN 43010048
  • Garratt, G. R. M., The early history of radio: from Faraday to Marconi, London, Institution of Electrical Engineers in association with the Science Museum, History of technology series, 1994. ISBN 0-85296-845-0 LCCN gb 94011611
  • Geddes, Keith, Guglielmo Marconi, 1874-1937, London : H.M.S.O., A Science Museum booklet, 1974. ISBN 0-11-290198-0 LCCN 75329825 (ed. Obtainable in the U.S.A. from Pendragon House Inc., Palo Alto, California.)
  • Hancock, Harry Edgar, Wireless at sea; the first fifty years: A history of the progress and development of marine wireless communications written to commemorate the jubilee of the Marconi International Marine Communication Company, Limited, Chelmsford, Eng., Marconi International Marine Communication Co., 1950. LCCN 51040529 /L
  • Hong, Sungook, Wireless: From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audio, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0-262-08298-5.
  • Janniello, Maria Grace, Monteleone, Franco and Paoloni, Giovanni (eds) (1996), One hundred years of radio: From Marconi to the future of the telecommunications. Catalogue of the extension, Venice: Marsilio.
  • Jolly, W. P., Marconi, 1972.
  • Kinzie, P. A., Early Wireless: Marconi was not Alone, azarc.org.
  • Larson, Erik, Thunderstruck, New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. ISBN 1-4000-8066-5 A comparison of the lives of Hawley Harvey Crippen and Marconi. Crippen was a murderer whose Transatlantic escape was foiled by the new invention of shipboard radio. Marconi does not come off as a very pleasant character.
  • Masini, Giancarlo, Guglielmo Marconi, Turin: Turinese typographical-publishing union, 1975. LCCN 77472455 (ed. Contains 32 tables outside of the text)
  • Mason, H. B. (1908). Encyclopaedia of ships and shipping, Wireless Telegraphy. London: Shipping Encyclopaedia. 1908. 707 pages.
  • Page, Walter Hines, and Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908. Page 9625
  • Stone, Ellery W., Elements of Radiotelegraphy
  • Weightman, Gavin, 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., Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 0-306-81275-4
  • Winkler, Jonathan Reed. Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008). Account of rivalry between Marconi's firm and the U.S. government during World War I.

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IEEE Medal of Honor
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Edwin H. Armstrong (1917) · Ernst Alexanderson (1919) · Guglielmo Marconi (1920) · Reginald A. Fessenden (1921) · Lee De Forest (1922) · John Stone Stone (1923) · Michael I. Pupin (1924)
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Persondata
NAME Marconi, Guglielmo Marchese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1874(1874-04-25)
PLACE OF BIRTH Palazzo Marescalchi, Bologna, Italy
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1937
PLACE OF DEATH Rome, Italy



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