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Although he said he was happy to be away from work for a day, Marconi, a veteran spectator, didn't get worked up by all the commotion...
...Jerry Marconi, a native of Nashua, N.H. spent most of the afternoon sitting across the street from a Newbury Street parking lot where Joe's Back Bay Restaurant called in the services of the Coors Silver Bullet van to set up a make-shift dance-floor/beer hall...
Sure, new media types are in love with Webcasting, but the hottest medium is Marconi's. We're talking radio--deregulation has put the industry in play. Last year some 2,100 stations were sold for a total of $15 billion. Some stations have changed hands three times...
...plenty of questions to address right now. Barely 10% of the matter in the universe has ever been found; the rest remains a mystery. Biologists understand the structure of DNA, but that no more reveals how life began than a schematic of a radio reveals the identity of Guglielmo Marconi. These and other big questions may yet be solved...
...small, incremental steps that had marked the progress of much of the 19th century. Inventions like the railroad or the telegraph or the typewriter had enabled people to get on with their ordinary lives a little more conveniently. The news, in 1901, that an Italian physicist named Guglielmo Marconi had received wireless telegraphic messages sent from Cornwall to Newfoundland was hailed as a triumph, but few discerned its full meaning: the birth of a communications revolution. Rather, it was another welcome convenience...