Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revolution (2003)

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Author

Gavin Weightman

Genre

Fiction

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3.61 of 5 Votes: 1

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ISBN

0306812754 (ISBN13: 9780306812750)

Language

English

Publisher

da capo press

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About book Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revolution (2003)

Saw this at the Harvard Coop, and snapped it up. It's a good read and a fascinating topic. It's essentially a biography of Marconi, focusing on his most creative period, 1896 - 1910 or so. The author glosses past the engineering aspects, which I found frustrating -- why did Marconi's apparatus behave as unpredictably as it did? Would a better physics education have helped him? What did he think was happening, and what really did? Likewise, I wish the author talked more about the business aspects. What were the Marconi companies doing? What was their financial status? It comes up at several points in the narrative, but isn't really explained.It's a good portrait of a fascinating individual, but insufficient as a technical or economic history.

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