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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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In questo volume
- 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
