Evening star., 1937-07-20
Marconi

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With the Pontiff. The first radio
station at the Vatican was installed
by him and when it was inaugurated
IN 1881 it was Marconi who intro
ouced Plus, the first Pope ever to
speak over the radio.
Despite his feeling OF i'll health
yesterday afternoon Marconi insisted
on working on his latest microwave
experiments The Marquis Luigi So
lari, head of the Italian Marconi Co.
the inventors biographer and life
long friend, said that late yesterday
afternoon Marconi came into his
oi1lce TO talk about his microWaye
experiments"
Offices in Home.
The Marconi Co. Offices are in the
inventors home and today the en-
ployes learned of his death as they
arrived for work. They stood to-
gether in little groups in the cor
ridors whispering gravely among
themselves. Many of them were
weeping openly.
'Marconi tolo me he planned to
spend the whole Summer aboard
his yacht Elettra conducting expert
ments." Solari said. His idea was
to adapt the microwave to long range
transmission.
"Marconi was very hopeful of the
success OF these experiments and
they are in such shape and have
reached such point we can 90 ahead
with his work"
Solari said that "Marconi had a
great affection for the United States.
Next to his own country he had a
greater love for America than any
other country"
Among the thousands of kilograms
of coincidence already pouring in was
one from Alexander Kirk, Charge
d'Affaires of the United States En-
bassy, who sent in it the absence of
Ambassador William Phillips, on va
cation.
Body to Lie in State.
Marconi's body will be removed to
historic Farnesina Palace, headquar-
ters of the Italian Royal Academy,
of which he was president, on the
banks of the Tiber, this afternoon,
to lie in state in the blue robes of
an academician.
Following preliminary funeral
service in Rome, the body will be
taken for burial to Bologna, where
he conducted his first experiments in
. barn on his fathers country estate.
Morning newspapers published spe-
cial editions which were sold out
imm ediately to the crowds that
swarmed around the newsstands. II
Messaggeros comment was considered
representative:
This is not only loss to Italy
but all the world, loss for science
and for all humanity. With him dis
appears one of the sovereign geniuses
who, because of the glory Of their
effort, are sufficient unto themselves ="
Marooni had been in apparently
good health for the last few days,
although he had suffered serious ILL
ICSoCS III LllC idSU LNO gCdlS.
Made Theory Practical.
Marconi, like Morse with the cleo
trio telegraph, turned laboratory dis
coveries OF secluded scientists into
practical use The actual discovery OF
radio, from purely scientific stand
point, goes back half century be-
fore Marconi.
'Hertzian waves" were the imme-
diate forerunners of the wireless
transmission of code signals They
were named for Heinrich r. Hertz
German physicist who, by expert
ments between 1885 and 1889, was
the first to prove that electrical waves
would radiate from any system from
which electrical oscillatio was pro-
duced
II the father of Marconi had had
his way, the problem of applying these
laboratory cogitations and discoveries
to commercial purposes would have
Marconi the world would have had
instead a probably mediocre and un-
sung musician.
But like many another budding
genius, young Marconi had a source
Of inspiration and pracHcal help in
his mother. Born Annie Jameson, of
an Irish family, she had gone to
italy against the wishes of her par
ents to marry Giuseppe Marconi, a
banker. She granted her sons wish
to study physics and enrolled him
with Prof. Vinoenzo Rosa. She also
helped him set up a workroom at
the family villa in Pontecchio.
Fathered Wireless at FL.
In the Spring Of 1895 the Marconi
wireless system was born. The
youthful inventor-he was only al
had found that two rods placed up
right in the earth at a determined
distance from each other would radi-
ate electric impulses in accord with
the laws governing the Hertzian
waves
He had established his transmitter
hear the window Of the barn. The
receiver was several hundred feet
away and out Of sight.
Giuseppe Vornelli, the carpenter as-
sistant. was at the receiving end
armed with a rifle If he saw 4 mag
netis arm vibrate he was to IRE the
dia;
AaFooni pressed the telegraph key