Ray Stannard Baker
The Boy's Book of Inventions
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( Aug. 9, 2012)
Excerpt:
Marconi was a mere boy when he first began to dream of the marvellous possibility of sending telegraph messages without wires. He was barely twenty-one, a shy, modest, beardless youth, when he went up to London from his quiet country home in Italy to tell the world about one of the greatest inventions of the century. A few months later this boy had set up his apparatus and was telegraphing all sorts of messages through the air, through walls, through houses and towns, through mountains, and even through the earth itself, and that with a mechanism hardly more complicated or expensive than a toy telephone. The present system of telegraphy by means of wires, the sending of long despatches over continents and under oceans, is quite wonderful enough in itself, but here was an inventor who did away entirely with wires and all other means of mechanical connection, and sent his messages directly through space. It is for this that Marconi was famous the world over at twenty-five.
Marconi was a mere boy when he first began to dream of the marvellous possibility of sending telegraph messages without wires. He was barely twenty-one, a shy, modest, beardless youth, when he went up to London from his quiet country home in Italy to tell the world about one of the greatest inventions of the century. A few months later this boy had set up his apparatus and was telegraphing all sorts of messages through the air, through walls, through houses and towns, through mountains, and even through the earth itself, and that with a mechanism hardly more complicated or expensive than a toy telephone. The present system of telegraphy by means of wires, the sending of long despatches over continents and under oceans, is quite wonderful enough in itself, but here was an inventor who did away entirely with wires and all other means of mechanical connection, and sent his messages directly through space. It is for this that Marconi was famous the world over at twenty-five.
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