Marconi

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Loyd Sigmon was born in 1909, the year that Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun split a Nobel Prize for “their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

The Marconi room holds the ship’s radio - a Marconi wireless telegraph machine - which broadcast the Titanic’s increasingly frantic distress signals after the ocean liner hit an iceberg.

From Washington Times • Aug. 29, 2023

The first trans-Atlantic wireless signal was sent by Guglielmo Marconi from Poldhu in Cornwall in December 1901.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2023

George Bochetto, the attorney representing Friends of Marconi Plaza, had hailed the court’s decision as “not just significant for the Columbus statue and Italian Americans, it’s significant for every ethnic group in this country.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2022

The high-voltage transformers in the courtyard also were showing their age; Brobeck appraised them as “equipment Marconi would have recognized.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik