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Singers, politicians, Bankers Otto Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
...Senator was amiably evasive until later in the day when his great good friend, chunky David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp. of America, presented him to the Press in R. C. A.'s magnificent new headquarters in Rockefeller Center."First," said Senator Marconi, "put me wise to what is taking place over here." He enjoys U. S. slang, asked particularly whether the phrase "cold feet" had changed meaning since 1927 when he was last in the U. S. (honeymooning with his second wife, who again accompanied him last week). Then Senator Marconi told what he has learned about...
...Marconi microwaves approach heat waves in shortness and light waves in behavior. They can be focused as a beam and sent in any direction. Theoretically they should be perceptible only just beyond the visible horizon of the sending station. Senator Marconi has made them register over a distance of 180 mi., or nine times his sending station's visible horizon, and has been able to communicate with them clearly and powerfully at five times the horizon. They register beyond mountains. Whether they bend over the mountain tops or go right through the mountains, he last week declared...
Asked a reporter: "Are big storms caused by too much high-power radio in the sky?" Answered Senator Marconi, laughing: "No. There were bad storms in prehistoric days...
...Chicago went Senator Marconi, to visit the Fair, mingle with Italian societies, eat with the American Legion, broadcast over the Atlantic to his listening King Victor Emmanuel receive an honorary Sc.D. from President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University, accept a 28-in. bronze statuet of an exultant young man from the grateful Radio Manufacturers Association...