Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marconi discovered the wireless telegraph Across the ocean blue. But the greatest discoveree...
...18th Century, whose experiments with electricity and the nerves and muscles of the legs of frogs gave rise to "galvanism" and kindred terms. But it was not until the end of the 19th Century that Bologna again made a contribution of truly world-wide proportions. After the sausage came wireless telegraphy, whose founder's marital vicissitudes loomed in the press last week as his works do every week...
...theorists and imitators wert following up my work, but always I remained far ahead of them, constantly meeting new problems which I swiftly grappled anc solved. I returned to England anc formed a company, since known as Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd., to exploit my work (I have ever been known as a good business man). Permanent stations were built. The first commercia transaction was when I followed the Kingstown Regatta races oJ 1898, on a tug behind the yachts flashing results to the Express ai Dublin. That same year, Queer Victoria was on the Isle of Wight...
...took out my famed Patent No. 7777, for a 'tuned' or syntonized system of wireless telegraphy, permitting the clearer re ception of messages, and of more than one message simultaneously on the same antenna. By 1901 I had so built up the power of my transmitter that I attempted talking from Cornwall to Newfoundland-with success on the very first trial. (This feat bore out my old contention, assailed by many, that the curvature of the earth would not impede the progress of electric waves.) The following year saw the extension of transatlantic communication to Capes Breton...
...Atlantic, aboard the U.S.S. Eastern Glade, bound out from Norfolk, Va., to Cape Town, S. Afr., the captain sweated to recall what simple medical skill he had stored up. Two of his crew were dying and he had no ship's doctor. Nor could his wireless, fumbling about, reach a ship with a doctor. It did, however, make contact with the U. S. S. West Calumb going north from Buenos Aires to Boston. Doctorless too, the West Calumb's captain sent his wireless calls fingering until he made contact with the French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc. Then...