The extraordinary and often bizarre story of an amateur inventor
and how his magic box changed the world. The world at the turn of
the twentieth century was in the throes of Marconi-mania-brought on
by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by
a dapper and eccentric figure (who would one day win the newly
minted Nobel Prize) at the center of it all. At a time when the
telephone, telegraph, and electricity made the whole world wonder
just what science would think of next, the startling answer had
come in 1896 in the form of two mysterious wooden boxes containing
a device Marconi had rigged up to transmit messages through the
ether. It was the birth of the radio, and no scientist in Europe or
America, not even Marconi himself, could at first explain how it
worked...it just did.Here is a rich portrait of the man and his
era-a captivating tale of British blowhards, American con artists,
and Marconi himself-a character par excellence, who eventually
winds up a virtual prisoner of his worldwide fame and fortune.
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