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Title: MARCONI MY BELOVED
Author: Maria Marconi
ISBN#: 0937832391
Cover Type: Hardback
Year Published: 1999 Status: In Stock
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On January 18th, 1903, from Wellfleet, Masachusetts the following
historical message was sent by Teddy Roosevelt to King Edward VII
of England.
" His Majesty, Edward VII, London, England
In taking advantage of this wonderful triumph of scientific research
and ingenuity which has been achieved in perfecting a system of
wireless telegraphy, I extend on behalf of the American people most
cordial greetings and good wishes to all the people of the British
Empire."
Theodore Roosevelt
Historical Note:
This event occurred on the evening of January 18th, 1903 on Wellfleet,
Cape Cod, Massachusetts and due to the 5 hour later time difference
in England, in some cases it is recorded as happening on January
19th, 1903.
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Guglielmo Marconi – Biography
Guglielmo Marconi was born at Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874,
the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian country gentleman,
and Annie Jameson, daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in
the County Wexford, Ireland. He was educated privately at Bologna,
Florence and Leghorn. Even as a boy he took a keen interest in physical
and electrical science and studied the works of Maxwell, Hertz,
Righi, Lodge and others. In 1895 he began laboratory experiments
at his father's country estate at Pontecchio where he succeeded
in sending wireless signals over a distance of one and a half miles,
thus becoming the inventor of the first practical system of wireless
telegraphy.
In 1896 Marconi took his apparatus to England where he was introduced
to Mr. (later Sir) William Preece, Engineer-in-Chief of the Post
Office, and later that year was granted the world's first patent
for a system of wireless telegraphy. He demonstrated his system
successfully in London, on Salisbury Plain and across the Bristol
Channel, and in July 1897 formed The Wireless Telegraph & Signal
Company Limited (in 1900 re-named Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company
Limited). In the same year he gave a demonstration to the Italian
Government at Spezia where wireless signals were sent over a distance
of twelve miles. In 1899 he established wireless communication between
France and England across the English Channel. He erected permanent
wireless stations at The Needles, Isle of Wight, at Bournemouth
and later at the Haven Hotel, Poole, Dorset.
In 1900 he took out his famous patent No. 7777 for "tuned
or syntonic telegraphy" and, on an historic day in December
1901, determined to prove that wireless waves were not affected
by the curvature of the Earth, he used his system for transmitting
the first wireless signals across the Atlantic between Poldhu, Cornwall,
and St. John's, Newfoundland, a distance of 2100 miles.
Between 1902 and 1912 he patented several new inventions. In 1902,
during a voyage in the American liner "Philadelphia",
he first demonstrated "daylight effect" relative to wireless
communication and in the same year patented his magnetic detector
which then became the standard wireless receiver for many years.
In December 1902 he transmitted the first complete messages to Poldhu
from stations at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, and later Cape Cod, Massachusetts,
these early tests culminating in 1907 in the opening of the first
transatlantic commercial service between Glace Bay and Clifden,
Ireland, after the first shorter-distance public service of wireless
telegraphy had been established between Bari in Italy and Avidari
in Montenegro. In 1905 he patented his horizontal directional aerial
and in 1912 a "timed spark" system for generating continuous
waves.
In 1914 he was commissioned in the Italian Army as a Lieutenant
being later promoted to Captain, and in 1916 transferred to the
Navy in the rank of Commander. He was a member of the Italian Government
mission to the United States in 1917 and in 1919 was appointed Italian
plenipotentiary delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. He was awarded
the Italian Military Medal in 1919 in recognition of his war service.
During his war service in Italy he returned to his investigation
of short waves, which he had used in his first experiments. After
further tests by his collaborators in England, an intensive series
of trials was conducted in 1923 between experimental installations
at the Poldhu Station and in Marconi's yacht "Elettra"
cruising in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and this led to the
establishment of the beam system for long distance communication.
Proposals to use this system as a means of Imperial communications
were accepted by the British Government and the first beam station,
linking England and Canada, was opened in 1926, other stations being
added the following year.
In 1931 Marconi began research into the propagation characteristics
of still shorter waves, resulting in the opening in 1932 of the
world's first microwave radiotelephone link between the Vatican
City and the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. Two years
later at Sestri Levante he demonstrated his microwave radio beacon
for ship navigation and in 1935, again in Italy, gave a practical
demonstration of the principles of radar, the coming of which he
had first foretold in a lecture to the American Institute of Radio
Engineers in New York in 1922.
He has been the recipient of honorary doctorates of several universities
and many other international honours and awards, among them the
Nobel Prize for Physics, which in 1909 he shared with Professor
Karl Braun, the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, the John
Fritz Medal and the Kelvin Medal. He was decorated by the Tsar of
Russia with the Order of St. Anne, the King of Italy created him
Commander of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, and awarded
him the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy in 1902.
Marconi also received the freedom of the City of Rome (1903), and
was created Chevalier of the Civil Order of Savoy in 1905. Many
other distinctions of this kind followed. In 1914 he was both created
a Senatore in the Italian Senate and app ointed Honorary Knight
Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in England. He received
the hereditary title of Marchese in 1929.
In 1905 he married the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, daughter of the 14th
Baron Inchiquin, the marriage being annulled in 1927, in which year
he married the Countess Bezzi-Scali of Rome. He had one son and
two daughters by his first and one daughter by his second wife.
His recreations were hunting, cycling and motoring.
Marconi died in Rome on July 20, 1937.
From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921.
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Guglielmo Marconi made his first wireless radio transmission in
1895 when he was only twenty-one years old. On December 12, 1901,
he transmitted from Cornwall, England to Newfoundland. In 1903,
Marconi transmitted President Roosevelt's letter to King Edward
VII. And in 1909, at age 35, Guglielmo was awarded the Nobel Prize
for physics by the King of Sweden.
....The Dante University Press is proud to publish the first English
language edition of MARCONI, MY BELOVED, written by the late Marchesa
(Mrs.) Maria Christina Marconi. This new Dante edition contains
three chapters written by his daughter, Princess Elettra Marconi,
and features many new photographs published for the first time.
This book coincides with the centennial celebration.
.....The book is available throughout the world, and we hope you
will want to purchase a copy for yourself, your local library, or
as a gift. The Dante University Press is offering this historically
important book at a special introductory price of $25.00. Place
your order today; supplies may be limited due to upcoming international
events celebrating the centennial of Marconi's transmission from
England. Proceeds from these sales will go to the Dante University
Foundation.
Read Princess Elettra's account of How her Father's invention was
responsible for saving those on the Titanic
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