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Article: Signor Marconi's Magic Box: the Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century and the Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution.(Book Review)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- September 6, 2003
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GAVIN WEIGHTMAN
Those who witnessed the first public demonstrations of Signor Guglielmo Marconi's magic box in 1896 thought they were being duped. After all, Marconi himself couldn't definitively explain how he was able to transmit messages through the "ether." It was another 7 years before anyone knew just how far the radio waves could travel, when Theodore Roosevelt exchanged a Morse code message with King Edward VII. Wireless telegraphy would ...
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Article: A COMPELLING LOOK INTO `MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX'
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... ... caught in a new book by Gavin Weightman, "Signor Marconi's Magic Box." Marconi isn't a household name like ... are never properly explained. Still, "Signor Marconi's Magic Box" is often hard to put down, if in the end ...
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