Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Guglielmo Marconi era inglese!

A volte esagerano un filino, o sbaglio?
Dal Times di oggi:
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28 2001
Marconi centenary
FROM THE REVEREND COLIN MACGREGOR
Sir, There are many reasons why Marconi’s transmission of radio signals across
the Atlantic in 1901 was a British achievement (letters, September 21, etc).
Marconi’s mother was British. When the Italian Government took no interest in
Guglielmo Marconi’s wireless experiments, he came to England. It was here that
Sir William Preece, the Chief Engineer at the Post Office, realised the
importance of Marconi’s work and organised demonstrations on Salisbury Plain
in front of British military authorities.
Much of the financing for his early work came from England. The first
experiments for sending wireless mes- sages across water were sent across
British waters.
In 1898 messages were sent by Queen Victoria herself to the Royal Yacht.
When Marconi established the transmission station at Poldhu, the equipment was
designed by Professor Fleming of the University College of London.
Although Marconi died in Italy he and his family lived on a country estate in
England, at least until his second marriage in 1927.
Yours sincerely,
COLIN MacGREGOR,
3 Longacre Court, 21 Mayfield Road,
Sanderstead CR2 0BG.
September 21.
From Professor John O’Reilly, FREng
Sir, The monument at Poldhu in Cornwall, from where Marconi’s transmissions
were made in 1901, records that the radio equipment was “designed and
 prepared” in the Pender Electrical Laboratory at University College London by
Professor Sir John Ambrose Fleming, then head of Electrical Engineering.
So whatever the degree of “associated Britishness” one feels applies to
Marconi the man, there can be no question that this was a great British
achievement, with Professor Fleming’s technical contribution deserving of more
widespread recognition.
Yours faithfully,
JOHN O’REILLY
(Head of Department, Electronic
and Electrical Engineering),
University College London,
Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE.
September 26.
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Ciao
Anna

 A volte esagerano un filino, o sbaglio?
Ci si domanda più che altro che senso abbia mettere delle targhette
nazionali sulle scoperte scientifiche e sugli avanzamenti tecnologici.
E' ben noto ciò che invece il reverendo omette accuratamente di menzionare,
vale a dire che Marconi ha realizzato la prima stazione radiotelegrafica nel
1895 a Pontecchio in Italia, ispirato dai lavori di Righi e di quel gigante
che è stato Hertz. Si può aggiungere che ha studiato a Bologna, Firenze e
Livorno, non a Oxford o Cambridge.
Non trovando effettivamente in Italia denari e strutture per sviluppare le
sue idee, trovò in Inghilterra il sostegno che meritava e, se proprio
bisogna parlare delle persone, come distingue giustamente il prof. O'
Reilly, tanto merito dello sviluppo della stazione di Poldhu va a Fleming,
britannico verace.
Ciao
Giorgio

I wouldn't claim it as a Britsh triumph..... but the first radio
transmission of a message was in Oxford in about 1895 (a few years before
Marconi) from a science laboratory to the Natural History Museum across the
road. After he had done it, the Oxford professor decided that there was no
future in this work and went on a long holiday to France!!

E' un fatto poco noto agli storici, ma Churchill era pugliese.
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So cry right here on the dotted line

 nazionali sulle scoperte scientifiche e sugli avanzamenti tecnologici.
Se è per questo, in Spagna sono tutti convinti che Cristoforo Colombo sia
nato in Spagna ed in Portogallo che sia nato in Portogallo! Incredibile, ma
tristemente vero... Chissà se anche in Cina credono che Marco Polo fosse un
cinese che ha scoperto Venezia, ecc. ecc. Di certo credono che gli spaghetti
li hanno inventati loro.
Ciao
A.L.

li hanno inventati loro.
Per dirla con Tony Soprano: come puo' un popolo che mangia coi
bastoncini avere invetato gli spaghetti?
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