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Luxury-loving Inventor Guglielmo Marconi left Rome for London last week with an ultra-short-wave radio kit in his baggage, a query in his mind, and the intention of showing his British scientific friends his latest refinement of radio...
...virtually a duplicate of the set which Inventor Marconi, who is a Papal Marchese as well as an Italian Senator, gave to the Pope. His Holiness now can radio-talk directly with his recently renovated summer home at Castel Gandolfo 14 miles away, and no one can listen in. Cost of operating the equipment is no more than the cost of keeping a 30-watt incandescent bulb alight...
...significant part of the new Marconi short-wave set is the transmitter-receiver. This, he explained last week, consists of four vertical copper rods, curved and placed in such a way that they outline a parabolic basin. A series of short copper rods projects from each vertical...
...became Lord Chief Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi Co., of which his brother was agent. He had disposed of 1,000 shares to Lloyd George, sold the rest at a profit. Newspapers made...
Since Castel Gandolfo is invisible from the Vatican, to oblige the Pope Signer Marconi was obliged to use reflectors or to develop a system of "bending" short waves or somehow shooting them out in a curve. Last week he announced that he had done so, that he and his collaborator, the Marchese Luigi Salari had communicated over a distance of 167 miles on 57-cm. (less than 2-ft.) waves. Other radio engineers read his statement with wonder and respect, awaited details...