A Wireless World : one hundred years since the Nobel Prize to Guglielmo Marconi

xix, 370 p.

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  ISBN: 9789171901798

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  THEMENBEREICHE

  • Angewandte Physik
  • Engineering, Civil Engineering
• In diesem Band

  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Section I : documents
  • Nobel Prize Lecture : December 11, 1909 : the original manuscript
  • The Nobel Prize in 1909 : the awarding process
  • Guglielmo Marconi and wireless telegraphy in the Swedish daily press
  • The Nobel Prize to Marconi in the Italian daily press
  • Section II : Marconi : the road to the Nobel prize
  • Vincenzo Rosa and the education of Guglielmo Marconi
  • Marconi's activity in 1895 : what we know and what is hypothesized
  • Whisper in the air : Marconi : the Canada years : from Newfoundland, to Nova Scotia, to Quebec
  • Pietro Blaserna, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Antonio Roiti and Giovanni Schiaparelli : Marconi's nominators who didn't make it.
  • Section III : Marconi's contemporaries and later scientists
  • Ferdinand Braun : a pioneer in wireless technology and electronics
  • Reflections in Appleton's mirror : a century of ionospheric science
  • Enrico Fermi talks about Guglielmo Marconi
  • Erik Gustaf Hallén
  • Section IV : equipment , devices and collections inSweden and Italy
  • SAQ in Grimeton, the only remaining pre-electronic transmitter for transatlantic work and the only radio station on the UNESCO World Heritage List
  • Collections on telecommunication engineering in Sweden
  • Collections on telecommunication engineering in Italy
  • Conclusion
  • Notes on editors
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index