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Died. Guglielmo Marconi, 67, Italian-Irish inventor of wireless communication, Nobel Prizewinner (1909), Italian marquese and senator, president of the Royal Academy of Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome. His current inventions were for short-wave focused radio beams; his last public service, the Pope's earth-circling short-wave broadcasting station...
...Manhattan arrived Giulio Marconi, 26, only son of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, to spend two years studying with Radio Corporation of America...
...Johns, Newfoundland, 36 years ago, Guglielmo Marconi heard the feeble ticks of the first transatlantic wireless. At St. Johns, 18 years ago, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown took off with the first mail to be flown across the Atlantic. Last week, 150 miles northwest of St. Johns near Botwood, in the dense woods at Hattie's Camp, 350 men were busy carving out a square mile which is to be North America's first transatlantic flying field...
Like National Broadcasting Co. in the U. S., England's British Broadcasting Corp. was started by radio manufacturers to give set owners something to listen to. B. B. C. founders in 1922 were the "wireless" firms of Marconi, Radio Communication Co., Metropolitan Vickers, British Thomson-Houston Co., General Electric and Western Electric. Four years later this private monopoly was given a ten-year royal charter, made a public institution somewhere between a Government Department and a commercial undertaking, independent in its daily doings but under the ultimate control of His Majesty's Government...
Every so often newspapers get steamed up about some mysterious new ray which will deal long-range death to men and animals, down airplanes or work other wholesale damage. Lately a ray said to stop gasoline engines and supposedly invented by no less a personage than Guglielmo Marconi stirred up a pother, which faded away when Marconi himself squelched it. Last week another exciting ray story cropped up in dispatches from Berkeley, Calif, which produced such headlines as NEW LETHAL RAY HURLED BY MAGNET, and NEW DEATH RAY TO AID MANKIND BEGINS ITS TEST...