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Word: marconis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressmen preferred the roll-call, he vowed: "I will never invent anything that isn't wanted again." Thus when he came accidentally across wireless waves, he took out a patent but, seeing no use at the time for this "etheric force," forgot it until he sold his right to Marconi in 1903. A need was his cue to start working; as when his friend. Rubberman Harvey Firestone sent to Liberia for materials. Forthwith Edison started his last experiments: U. S. rubber production from golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World Citizen | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...Englishmen a bright diversion. In Albert Hall the convening scientists last week found a large statue of Faraday surrounded by his personal relics and devices built on his discoveries. Prime Minister MacDonald made an intercontinental radio talk in Faraday's memory, as did Sir William Bragg, Senator Guglielmo Marconi, Louis-Victor Due de Broglie, Professor Elihu Thomson. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories telephoned his transatlantic respects from Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: British Association | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Pedro's wireless room joked at each other with wistful gallantry. Morris offered the first operator a ham sandwich, salvaged from the flooded kitchens. "Do take some more caviar, count. It will only be thrown out. . . . All together now; American Marconi Company, I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the Vestris | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...clouds and squally weather ushered in Cowes Week, Great Britain's chief yachting fixture. The regatta started with tragedy. Just before the first race the Britannia, King George's 38-year-old cutter journeyed for position by the starting buoy off Calshot Head, proud of her new Marconi rig with its towering hollow mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept Second Mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cowes Week | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...Telegraph, International Telephone & Telegraph, Western Union, United Corp., and many another electrical utility.) Banker Morgan gave Genius Tesla great amounts of money for experiment. In Colorado in 1899, Tesla built a huge in duction coil by which he generated and, he says, sent out wireless waves the same year Marconi established wireless communication between France and England. Tesla claims priority, because he con ceived his system six years earlier, in 1893. The theoretical path of Tesla's waves were through the earth, not through the air as Hertzian waves go. On Long Island, Tesla built a steel tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tesla at 75 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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