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Marconi

noun

Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937). Synonym: Guglielmo Marconi.

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"Marconi" Quotes from Famous Books

... shall be told that our parallel does not hold good: if the Marconi apparatus failed seven times out of ten, we should hardly {211} think it worth while to provide our ships with so unreliable an instrument; yet who would say that even three out of ten prayers for stated objects ...

— Problems of Immanence - Studies Critical and Constructive • J. Warschauer

... substantial reasons for the supplanting of Mr. Asquith by Mr. Lloyd George. Political failings like these and lapses like the Marconi scandal might well be forgiven the man who could get on with the war, or at least persuade the people of its progress. The man in the street really believed that after the change of government the war would soon be won, and subscribed with enthusiasm to a "victory" loan calculated to finance a ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

Words linked to "Marconi" : electrical engineer