Nov. 13 – The Italian Cultural Institute in New York has scheduled a very special conference for Thursday, November 20 (at 6pm), on “Marconi and his intuitions.” James E. McClellan III (Stevens Institute of Technology), W. Bernard Carlson (University of Virginia), and Alexander Magoun (Outreach Historian, Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineering) will explain the Physics Nobel 1909 laureate. “Guglielmo Marconi – explains the IIC in a note – laid the foundations for the creation of all future radio technologies. Through his experiments in wireless telegraphy, Marconi developed the first effective radio communication system. In 1899, he founded the Marconi Telegraph Company; he sent and received the first radio signal in Italy in 1895. In 1899, Marconi sent the first wireless signal across the English Channel, and two years later he was able to send a signal from England to Newfoundland. This was the first successful transatlantic radiotelegraph communication, which belied the prevailing opinion that the curvature of the Earth would prevent the transmission.” (Red)
