My Beloved Marconi [Hardcover]

Maria Cristina Marconi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999

When in 1895 twenty-one-year-old Guglielmo Marconi made his first wireless transmission over land, he became the boy wonder of the world. When subsequently, he made similar transmissions across the Atlantic Ocean, thus proving to the world that his radio-related inventions had immediate and wide-spread applications for all of humanity, young Marconi ushered in the Age of Communication. The life, the works, the character of one of the greatest scientists of this Century, Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the Radio, are described in this carefully documented, impassioned and deeply involved book by an exceptional witness: his wife Maria Cristina. He was called 'The genius who gave a voice to silence'. Acclaimed by the whole world, the recipient of the most prestigious honours and decorations, he never lost his innate modesty and discretion even at the height of his success.

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About the Author

Maria Cristina Marconi was a Marchesa in her own rights. She wrote the biography out of a need to tell her husband's story as it evolved, with pictures and documents attesting to Marconi's achievements. The book was written in Italian and translated into English, under the collaboration of their daughter, Princess Elettra Marconi, who has added numerous additional photos and new chapters. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 388 pages
• Publisher: Dante University of America Press (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937832367
• ISBN-13: 978-0937832363
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,703,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marconi comes to life!, December 31, 1999

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Beloved Marconi (Hardcover)

Who invented the wireless radio? Well as we are taught in history class Marconi did. Now what else do we know about him? More or less very little, that was until now. This book is an exceptional look into one of this century greatest men.

Written by Marconi's wife, this book is more than a simple biography, it is a love story, and it is a romance novel and most importantly it is history lesson all rolled into 370 plus pages of one of the best books I have ever read or reviewed.

The books tells more than the life work of the "man who gave voice to silence", it shows another side, this side history books never record. The book includes letter, pictures and even a listing of his honors.

Here is a book that should be on the must read list for those interested in history. I was truly impressed by the way the author makes the man come to life and shows his triumphs and his failures. Excellent reading for one and all!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guglielmo Marconi's story told by his wife and daughter, November 5, 2005

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Mary Liz Cortese "Fan of Marconi" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marconi My Beloved (Hardcover)

This book was originally written (and reprinted several times) in Italian by the wife of Inventor and Statesman Guglielmo Marconi, and in recent years was translated to english by his daughter Elettra, who also added some important recollections. Guglielmo Marconi was the first to discover how to send a sound made in one box, to another box on the other side of the room.
This technology was then used by others, as it still is today, in inventions that involve wireless communication, such as satellite communication and radios.
He was Nobel Prize winner. He was credited with saving the lives of survivors on the Titanic because he installed the radio transmission on that ship. He conceived of, and built the Vatican Radio Station which is still a powerful communications tool for the world's millions of Roman Catholics.
Read it!