Marconi: Father of Wireless, Grandfather of Radio, Great-Grandfather of the Cell Phone, The Story of the Race to Control Long-Distance Wireless
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439263906 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 484 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has lived in England and the northeast coast of the United States and, like Marconi, has a deep love for the sea. Trowbridge is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University, and Harvard Law School. Trowbridge has experienced highly competitive and monopolistic settings in hi-tech, service-oriented, and product industries. He has been engaged with start-ups, conglomerates, as well as mature companies. To prepare for writing this in-depth biography, Trowbridge studied Marconi’s texts, historical events of the time, biographies of scientists and businessmen relevant to Marconi, and financial reports of Marco
He has been engaged with start-ups, conglomerates, as well as mature companies. To prepare for writing this in-depth biography, Trowbridge studied Marconi’s texts, historical events of the time, biographies of scientists and businessmen relevant to Marconi, and financial reports of Marconi companies. has spent forty years in the
A Thrilling Story Caro I hadn't expected to be interested in a biography of an inventor, but I like biographies and so I bought it. Trowbridge spins an exciting yarn with suspense in every chapter. From Marconi's challenges as a teenage inventor sneered at by older men who felt they had THE answer to testing new inventions in front of kings and emperors who could make or break his future, the story is riveting. Weather, beautiful women, angry governments and investors furious at Marconi's use of company profits for more experiments provide suspense enough to keep the. "Kindle transfer very poor" according to Bill and Bobbie. While the content may be interesting if you stick with it, the transfer to Kindle is atrocious. In fact I want to say this Kindle edition is a rip-off. You will find many, and I mean many, sentences that have lost initial capitalization. I wanted to return the "book" but can't find a way to return a Kindle book download for a refund. Look elsewhere for the digital version.. Deborah Sue St Clair said Marconi and the early days of radio. Marconi by Calvin D Trowbridge Jr is well written and researched and is really more about the man and his times than about the technology he invented.Trowbridge draws on little used primary sources to paint a clear picture of Marconi and his family relations and his work ethetic and indominable quest for increasing the range and usefullness of wireless communication. He was not a theorist but more a pragmatic inventor in the vein of Edison. Like Edison Marconi sacrificed much of his personal life for his work and maybe even hid his painful yout
Not until Marconi has there been an in-depth biography that focuses on the inventor as businessman/entrepreneur and the global race that took place in an effort to dominate and control wireless technology. Utilizing important though little-used documents, author Calvin D. Trowbridge Jr. From the end of the Victorian Era to the First World War, Marconi would take center stage as he perfected the science of sending signals over longer and longer distances. Marconi, the “father of radio and radar” would create an industry dominating enterprise that would last for over a quarter of a century. As a result of Marconi’s first “electrical” triumph at the age of twenty-one, he gained ever-increasing attention from powerful interests, including governments, who sought to obtain the keys to the new science from him. has brought a new perspective to the scientific life and business times of Guglielmo Marconi, proving why Marconi is considered to be one of the most influential people in our history.