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(1920s) Guglielmo Marconi
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
People
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Guglielmo Marconi
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<p>(MARCH 24, 1923)
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<p> The triumphal progress of wireless telephony is evidenced in
every daily paper. New devices, improved methods, record
performances crowd the news, though but a twenty-four hours'
wonder.
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<p> The master wizard of all radioists, Guglielmo Marconi, is
again on the job, and forecasts the early attainment of complete
directional control of radio. He is working to perfect a system
by which radio messages will be received only by the persons for
whom they are intended. His experiments, extending over a
considerable period, will soon be put to the acid test on his
specially fitted yacht Electra, on which he will cruise down the
coast of Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and
other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being
closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind
of receiving instrument, whereby stations can tell the point of
the wave's origin to a fraction of a second of arc.</p>
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