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...England, radio engineers "listened" for signals from Mars with apparatus tuned for waves from 30 metres to 40,000 in length. Engineer Guglielmo Marconi was quoted as having believed interstellar communication "not impossible." A spiritist kept newspaper readers diverted with "messages" from a Martian woman, one "Gomaruru...
...Guglielmo Marconi, radio engineer: "Last week I attended the British Institution of Civil Engineers in London; saw Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the marine turbine, receive the famed Kelvin Gold Medal. I addressed the assemblage, saying in part: 'I hope you will not think me too visionary if I say that it may be possible that some day electric waves may be used for the transmission of power over moderate distances, if we succeed in perfecting devices for projecting the waves in parallel beams in such a manner as to minimize dispersion of the energy into space...
...asked, "didn't someone quietly drown Rudolph Guglielmo (alias Valentino) years ago? . . . Chicago has its powder puffs; London, its dancing men, Paris its gigolos. Down with Decatur; up with Elinor Glyn. Hollywood is the national school of masculinity. Rudy, the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American male. Hell's bells! Oh, sugar...
Carolus Cell. In Rome, a recent statement of Guglielmo Marconi that "it will soon be possible to transmit a picture or a whole page of print across the Atlantic by radio," was amplified. Marconi's prophecy, it appeared, was based on the development, in various European laboratories, of a new photo-electric cell, much more sensitive than the selenium cells hitherto used with indifferent results. The inventor of the cell was one Dr. Carolus, who had based his work on the so-called Kerr method of influencing polarized light so that high voltage produces a strong light ray, low voltage...
Bearing a distinction enjoyed only by figures such as George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Edison, General Goethals, Orville Wright, Guglielmo Marconi, Ambrose Swazey (TIME, Feb. 25. 1924), Mr. Stevens arose to deprecate, to give thanks. He briefly ran over his life?a start in Maine, no technical training, the acquisition of knowledge through observation. He concluded: "There is not a man who ever worked for me whom I cannot now call my friend. That is my greatest triumph...