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Weightman, Gavin. Signor Marconi's Magic Box: the Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century & the Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

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Sept. 2003. 336p. Da Capo, $25 (0-306-81275-4). 621.38.

Guglielmo Marconi invented the best radio equipment in the technology's infancy a century ago. He made a fortune, cruised among queens of England and kings of Italy, and died an acolyte of Mussolini. Weightman ably chronicles Marconi's life in the context of his urgency to perfect radio transmission and reception before rivals did. Marconi was born into comfortable circumstances, and his youthful passion for crafting devices to generate "Hertzian" waves was supported by his ...

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