Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019931358X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 872 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He established stations and transmitters in every corner of the globe, from Newfoundland to Buenos Aires, Hawaii to Saint Petersburg. Until his death in 1937, Marconi was at the heart of every major innovation in electronic communication, courted by powerful scientific, political, and financial interests, and trailed by the media, which recorded and published nearly every one of his utterances. Someone had not only imagined this networked world but realized it: Guglielmo Marconi. Based on original research and unpublished archival materials in four countries and several languages, Raboy's book is the first to connect significant parts of Marconi's story, from his early days in Italy, to his groundbreaking experiments, to his protean role in world affairs. Soon after he burst into public view with a demonstration of his wireless apparatus in London at the age of 22 in 1896, he established his Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company and seemed unstoppable. Born to an Italian father and an Irish mother, he was in many ways stateless, working his cosmopolitanism to advantage. Raboy also explo
The Mother of all start-ups Brilliantly researched, this book shows Marconi to be, in many ways, the Steve Jobs of the last century. Marconi’s creation of wireless communication was the mother of all start-ups and his business model provided the template for our digital age. Above all this book tells a terrific story and is a wonderful read.. Five Stars Ronald Thomas Great book. Everything you ever wanted to know about Marconi.. WHERE are the OUP editors?? I know the Oxford University Press has an excellent reputation, but if they don't get in decent editors, I'm not going to put up with too many more of their publications. The biography is not particularly well-written, which is too bad, but errors such as "he returned again to" By virtue of the fact that he returned, the RE part of the word means BACK or AGAIN, so there's no need to return again. It's like saying "descending down the stairs." The DE part of the word means DOWN, so no need to say down when you say descend.
He lives in Montreal.. Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, and he has been a visiting scholar at Stockholm University, the University of Oxford, New York University, and the Lond
Douglas, University of Michigan; author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination"Marc Raboy's book is by far the most comprehensive rendering of Marconi's life and times I have seen. Employing a wide range of archival sources, Raboy crafts a highly readable story of a man who is at times heroic, at times a cad. Price, Director, Center for Global Communications Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania "Marconi is a tour de force, revealing the fascinating history of one of the most i