telegraph, wireless

A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships could now make contact with other ships (saving lives, such as on the doomed R.M.S. Titanic); financial markets could coordinate with other financial markets, establishing the price of commodities and fixing exchange rates; military commanders could connect with the front lines, positioning artillery and directing troop movements. Suddenly and irrevocably, time and space telescoped beyond what had been thought imaginable. Someone had not only imagined this networked world but realized it: Guglielmo Marconi.

Examines the lives and accomplishments of Guglielmo Marconi and Nikola Tesla, discussing their pioneering work in developing wireless communication, and includes Internet links to additional information.

A short biography of late nineteenth-century Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate Guglielmo Marchese Marconi that profiles his life and works which included the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system known as the radio.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of radio and wireless communication, discussing his early life in Italy, his parents, his interest in science as a youth, and his pioneering work.

Tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied Guglielmo Marconi's invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and the investigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr. H.H. Crippen, who would likely have pulled off the perfect crime had it not been for the ability to send wireless transatlantic transmissions.