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Marconi
[ mahr-koh-nee; Italian mahr-kaw-nee ]
noun
- Gu·gliel·mo [goo-, lyel, -maw], Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
Marconi
/ mɑːˈkəʊnɪ /
noun
- MarconiGuglielmo18741937MItalianSCIENCE: physicist Guglielmo (ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo). 1874–1937, Italian physicist, who developed radiotelegraphy and succeeded in transmitting signals across the Atlantic (1901): Nobel prize for physics 1909
Marconi
/ mär-kō′nē /
- Italian physicist and inventor who was the first to use radio waves to transmit signals in Morse code across the Atlantic Ocean (1901). Soon after his experiment, he developed shortwave radio equipment and helped establish radio as a widely used medium for communications.
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He found her in the music-room, with several of the little Marconi missives spread out before her, and she cut him dead.
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The house for the Marconi instruments was situated on the boat deck close to the bridge.
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So far as can be ascertained, it was never heard of by anyone on board the Titanic outside the Marconi room.
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It thus appears that the Marconi apparatus was at work until within a few minutes of the foundering of the Titanic.
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The Californian heard none of the Titanic's messages; she had only one Marconi operator on board and he was asleep.
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