Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio Day" last week, Communications Industry Minister Gennady Vasilievich Alexenko patiently repeated that the man who first developed radio (in the year 1895) was Alexander Popov of St. Petersburg. (Popov had thought up radar, too.) And what of the world's acclaim for Italian Inventor Guglielmo Marconi? Said Moscow: "Sham laurels...
...forthwith into a strait jacket. There was a certain irony in this. Petrillo's carnivorous methods of "getting something for the boys" made him the natural foe of the canned-music business, but he was also part and product of it, as much a child of Edison and Marconi as the electric tone arm and the portable radio...
...Little Show (TIME, June 23): "I gave 'em a good, tight, 15-minute comedy show and what do they do? They expand it to half an hour and throw in an orchestra and an audience. . . . Who the hell said a comedy show had to be half an hour? Marconi? Ida Cantor...
Died. Sir Ambrose Fleming, 95, one of Britain's foremost electrical scientists and pioneer in radio's development, inventor of the diode valve (predecessor of the radio tube), designer of the wireless signal apparatus for Marconi's first transatlantic message in 1901; in Sidmouth, England. In 1933, when he was 83, stately Sir Ambrose took a 34-year-old bride, six years later emerged from retirement to attack scientific theories of evolution, affirmed his belief in the miracles and prophecies of the Bible...
Shapley now joins the ranks of Edison, Marconi, Orville Wright, Einstein, and Charles F. Kettering, who have also received the medal. At present, shapley is working with galaxies, star clusters, and astronomical data on the formation of the earth's crust...