Signor Marconi's magic box : the most remarkable invention of the 19th century & the amateur inventor whose genius sparked a revolution /
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 tele...
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Cambridge, MA :
Da Capo Press,
2003.
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| Edition: | 1st Da Capo Press ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Map : Marconi's early wireless telegraph stations
- In darkest London
- Silkworms and whiskey
- Sparks in the attic
- In the heart of the empire
- Dancing on the ether
- Beside the seaside
- Texting Queen Victoria
- An American investigates
- The romance of Morse code
- A New York welcome
- Atlantic romance
- Adventure at Mullion Cove
- An American forecast
- Kite-flying in Newfoundland
- The spirits of the ether
- Fishing in the ether
- The end of the affair
- Farewell the pigeon post
- The power of darkness
- The hermit of Paignton
- The king's appendix
- The thundering professor
- A real colonel sellers
- Defeat in the Yellow Sea
- A wireless rat
- Dazzling the millions
- 'Marky' and his motor
- On the American frontier
- Marconi gets married
- Wireless at war
- America's whispering gallery
- A voice on the air
- The bells of Budapest
- Wireless to the rescue
- Dynamite for Marconi
- Le Match Dew-Crippen
- A marriage on the rocks
- Ice and the ether
- It's a CQD, old man
- After the Titanic
- The crash
- The suspect Italian
- Eclipse of Marconi on the Eiffel Tower
- In bed with Mussolini
- Epilogue
- Index.