Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guglielmo Marconi, Irish-Italian wireless inventor, financier, deftly subdued last week's meeting of petulant stockholders in his Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. The meeting took place in the spacious assembly hall of Connaught Rooms, in London's West End. Signor Marconi presided as chairman of the board of directors...
...Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself the author of great advances in electrical communication, Dr. Pupin predicted the ultimate translation of cosmic messages from the surrounding universe, especially those emissions of the sun which are now looked upon as nuisances to earthly radio...
...also the year of the unpleasant 'Marconi scandal,' in which I had no part. The British Postoffice approved a tender of my British company to build stations for its use. Godfrey Isaacs, manager of both my British and American companies, advised his brother Rufus, then Attorney General, later Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, to buy shares in the American company. Rufus Isaacs bought ?10,000 worth, soon selling ?1,000 to David Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. The affair came to light. Mr. Lloyd-George was bitterly assailed for profiting privately...
...Senator Marconi is no laboratory-hugging genius like the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz or Thomas Alva Edison. He hunts the fox, rides the bicycle, dines at his club, has parties of young people aboard his yacht. In conquering a new world he has not lost...
...earlier song, "Mr. Dooley," also mentioned Marconi: And young Marconi eats macaroni With Mister Dooley, ooley, ooley...