Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensational anecdotes or personal disclosures. It is filled with authentic, undramatized accounts of a sensitive, scrupulous literary journeyman's life and with brilliant sketches of public men in action. Three of these sketches-of General Tasker Bliss and Commissioner Henry White at the Versailles Peace Conference, and of Marconi receiving the first transatlantic wireless message in Newfoundland -are models of their kind, written with the sense of history that makes both the characters and the moment live. The full-length portrait of Woodrow Wilson, whom Baker served at Versailles as the Peace Commission's press director, is masterly...
Because of his own enthusiasm for science, Van Anda made it front-page news, devoting big space to Marconi's experiments in telegraphy and to Peary's and Amundsen's polar expedition. He led the way in making Einstein and "King Tut" U.S. household words...
...simple mathematical calculation in each case gives the right answer. The Liebers go on to discuss more complicated questions, such as the relation of mathematical philosophers to practical inventors. For example, practical Marconi had to get the idea that a wireless message might be sent before he could figure how to do it. He got the idea from Hertz's demonstration of the existence of electromagnetic waves. And Hertz got the idea of looking for such waves from Clerk Maxwell, who got his idea from working with the calculus. And the calculus was invented long before by Newton...
...most stupendous experiment on the air waves since G. Marconi first sent out his sputtering messages over a wireless will take place tonight at 5:30 o'clock over the CRIMSON Network according to Nelson R. Gidding '41, creator of the experiment...