The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20

m yesterday afternoon and retired early. At 8 o'clock this morning he rang for his valet.
 q am very sorry" he said In Q calm, polite voice, "but am going to put you and my friends to con. siderable trouble. fear my end Is near. VIII you please Inform my wifeq"
 Mrs. Marooni was at viareggio where she was vacationing, Noti- fled by telephone, she started at once for Rome by automobile, arriv- ing at 2 Q. m. The servant also summoned Marconi's friends, scien- tifio collaborators, and Q doctor. He died soon after the physician arrived
 Personal Message To Daughter
 But before he warned his valet, Marconi dictated Q personal mes- sage to the only child of his second marriage, 2 year old Elettra, who was with her mother, and whose birth- day Is today. He had two daughters and Q boy by his first marriage, the eldest of whom, Qiullo, Is in New York.
 The precise cause of Marconi'a death was diagnosed by pr. Cesare Frugoni, who attended his last mos ments, aS heart paralysis. The scientists mind was clear and lucid to the last. He received absolution from the parish priest who had been summoned from the Church of Saint Andre Della Fratte, and died re- beating the names of his wife and child.
 At Castel dandolfo, the Pope re- ceived later his secretary of state, Cardinal paeelli, who told him about Marconis last moments. A fervent admirer of the scientist, the Pope had engaged him to supervise the installation of the Vatican's first radio transmitting station, and received him frequently, He had Q talk with him Saturday. He believed Marconi foresaw death then, De- cause he asked Q special benedic- ton for himself and his family.
 Condolences of Vatican
 The Pope ordered his secretaries to telegraph condolences to the fam- fly, the Italian government, and the Italian academy. Ills condolences were part of the thousands which began pouring In from oil parts of the world soon after MafconiS death was announced.
 An intimate collaborator of the scientist told the United Press that he had frequently suffered heart attacks during experiments,
 The Marconi family decided to have the body taken this afternoon to the Italian Academy, of which Marconi was president. There the public had opportunity to pay It's respects to the inventor.
 Religious ceremonies will be held in Rome at c D. m. tomorrow and Q national funeral at Bologna later, The body will lie in state ct Gala. tea hall of the Italian Academy until tomorroW's ceremonies.
 The public was permitted to Ale past the body beginning at 3 D. m. today.
 Marconi always regarded more highly than any of these honorS, the praise of the late Thomas Edi- son after he announced that he had spanned the Atlantic by wireless. Many scientists doubted, but Edison said:
 If Mareoni says 1t is true, 1t is true"
 Nothing Impossible
 Of the future development Of radio, Marooni always said:
 Nothing can Do labeled impos- sible. A months research might change everything"
 Mareoni was born in Bologna, April 2B, 1874, the son of an Italian banker, Giuseppe Marconi, and on Anglo-Irish mother, Anna Jameson,
 At an early age he showed Q fond ness for mathematics and science, He was educated in Florence, Bolo- gna, Leghorn and in Great Britain.
 When he was 2i, Marconi was convinced that electric waves ex- isted-that on electrical impulse could be sent through the air and be received at some distant point, At the University of Bologna he had learned of strange things called "Hertzian waves" They had mani- fested their presence to Edison in 1870. Edison could not understand what they were, Hertz, . German physicist, later declared they were electrical waves. Marconi had learn cd ct Bologna how to produce these strange waVeS--but what they were good for he did not know.
 Where He Got Idea
 He got the Idea of using these Hertzian waves for communication while serving in the Italian Army Signal Corps. His job was to mani- pulate 0 mirror, flashing Morse code dots and dashes to other soldiers mile or so away.
 One day the sky was cloudy and the heliograph, could not function, He constructed c device to produce electrical discharges and another to receive them. He sent the signal Q mile. Having demonstrated that signals could be sent for short dis- tances. He decided they could be sent greater distances-perhaps to the ends of the earth.
 He kept increasing the distance, and the power, until transmission of i20 miles was practical. He of- fered his invention to the Italian government. The government was not interested.
 Mussollni Arrived Quietly
 Mussolini, one of the first mourn CTS to reach the bier, was one of his most ardent admirers, but ad- miration of the little man trans. cended all creeds and all national borders. Behind the family listening to a living room radio, the orches- tra before the microphone, the radio operator of ship talking to ashore hundreds of miles away, the peo- pie of remote corners of the earth