Marconi
[mɑ:'kəuni]
Definition
(noun.) Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937).
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Examples
- It is interesting to note that Edison became greatly interested in the later developments by Marconi, and is an admiring friend and adviser of that well-known inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That Department, through Sir William Henry Preece, Engineer-in-Chief of Telegraphs, took up the subject, and reported very favorably on the Marconi System. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He took out a patent covering wireless telegraphy in 1891, but other matters were then absorbing his attention, and he was quite willing to yield that field to the brilliant Italian, Marconi. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Though the honor of inventing the art of wireless telegraphy is generally ascribed to Marconi, this is to give him more credit than he deserves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Let us now see what it was that Marconi had actually done. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- According to Signor Marconi its present range is limited to eighty-six miles, but it is expected that this will be soon extended to 150 miles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Edison took out a patent covering wireless telegraphy before Marconi gave his name to the new means of communication. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There are other systems of wireless telegraphy of later invention than that of Marconi, through a different application of the same principles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Signor Marconi used the vertical conductors and the Hertz-oscillation principle, and his system is described in his United States patent. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- With Marconi’s successful demonstrations of wireless in England its use at once began. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The young man at the table was Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was organized in 1897, and made agreements to erect coast stations for the Italian, Canadian, and Newfoundland governments, and for Lloyd’s. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Edison has always had a great admiration for Marconi and his work, and a warm friendship exists between the two men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Marconi of Italy has been more successful in this direction, and has sent electric messages and signals from high stations over the English Channel from the shores of France to England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Marconi was born at Villa Griffone, near Bologna, in 1874, so that he was under thirty when he caught that first transatlantic message. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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