Signor Marconi's Magic Box
Subtitle: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century & the Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: September 21, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780306813788
Subjects: Biography: general; History of engineering & technology; Radio technology; Inventions; Radio Engineering; Technology; History - General History; Science/Mathematics; Radio; Scientists - Inventors; Nanotechnology; Biography; Electric engineers; History; Italy; Marconi system; Telegraph, Wireless
First sentence: On a winter's evening in 1896 a brougham, a four-wheeled cab drawn by a single horse, left the fashionable stuccoed terraces of west London and headed eastwards along the dirt roads and cobbled streets of the capital, which glistened in the gaslight under a light rain.