Word: marconis
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...seemed to be one of the outgrowths of fooling with amateur wire telegraph instruments. A great many boys in years past became bitten with the telegraph bug and built little telegraph systems and communicated with each other in the next house or across the street. When Mr. Marconi began to achieve results with his wireless signals the most determined of these boys took up wireless. It was a hopeless effort, for Mr. Marconi himself was having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities he was able to command. But as is always the case, failure only...
...possible then, that Mars has something which she is anxious to conceal? Professor Lowell has long held that the planet is the seat of intelligent life; Marconi is convinced that he has received wireless messages from this source. So if, as is commonly supposed, Mars is a much older world than our own, Professor Todd should soon be turning his clock forward a million wears or so and spying out the future of the Human Race. Unfortunately, Nature dislikes dealing in futures, and will undoubtedly do all in her power to prevent him from casting the horoscope of this...
...provide many incentives for that kind of work. The public reward and recognition extended to technologic promoters is out of all proportion to that extended to scientific achievement itself-witness the millions of people who have heard of Edison but not of Theobald Smith, or who think that Marconi invented wireless telegraphy. Probably thousands of Yale men have not heard of Willard Gibbs, one of the most creative minds in nineteenth century science, whose work at New Haven was possible largely because he was a man of means and of good family. Perhaps the general cause of science might prosper...
...with delight that we hear of the plan to play chess by wireless. Surely of all the triumphs of Marconi's genius none surpasses this. It has long been recognized by non-partisan observers that the range of the University Chess Team is much curtailed, and many possible glorious victories have been lost because of the team's inability to entertain the Swedish mathematical wizards in a dual contest, or to journey to Pekin to brave the Confucius Club upon its home chess board...
...start was made on July 2, 1913, and the first leg of the race was the ocean-trip, on the Mauretania. Among those on board was Mr. Marconi, the inventor of the wireless. After spending a night and a day in London Mr. Mears went to Paris where he met the holder of the "round-the-world" record up to that time. It had been made in 1911 and the time was 39 days. A night train took Mr. Mears to Berlin from where he started for St. Petersburg. At each of the capitals he visited the United States diplomatic...