Signor Marconi's magic box: how an amateur inventor defied scientists and began the radio revolution
Arts and entertainment, Biography, Science and medicine biography, Science and technology
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Summary
On a winter's evening in the East End of London in 1896, an unassuming young Italian gave the first public demonstration of a device he had created in the attic of his family home near Bologna. It consisted of two… wooden boxes, one of which could apparently transmit messages to the other. Many of those in the audience suspected that they were witnessing a mere conjuring trick. None can have guessed that Signor Marconi's magic box would be regarded as the most remarkable invention of the nineteenth century, and that he himself would become one of the most famous men in the world. 2003.