Signor Marconi's Magic Box (42 page)

Gernsback, Hugo

Given, Thomas H.

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia: wireless station established wireless structure collapses

Gladstone, William Ewart

Godalming: street lighting introduced

Grande Duchesse
, SS

Great Eastern
(ship)

Griffone, Villa, Pontecchio, near Bologna

Grosser Kurfürst
, SS

Guantanamo, Cuba

Gurney, Edmund

Haimun
, SS

Halifax Herald
(Nova Scotia)

Hall, Cuthbert

Harmsworth, Alfred (
later
Viscount Northcliffe)

Harrison, Benjamin

Havel River, near Potsdam

Haven Hotel, Poole

Heaviside, Charles

Heaviside, Oliver: background and character theories on wireless telegraphy partial deafness Fessenden makes offer to recommended for Nobel Prize death

Heinrich, Prince of Germany

Hertz, Heinrich

Hertzian waves

Hibberd, A.S.

Hill, J. Arthur

Hippisley, Richard

Hitchcock, Alfred

Hohenzollern
(German royal yacht)

Holman, Josephine: engagement to GM on
St Paul
absence from GM breaks off engagement

Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron

Hozier, Colonel Sir Henry Montague

Hughes, David Edward

Hugo, Victor

Hunstanton, Norfolk

icebergs: as ocean hazard

Imperial Wireless Scheme

Inch, Captain Francis

Inchiquin, Edward Donough O’Brien, 14th Baron

Inchiquin, Ellen Harriet, Lady (
née
White)

Inchiquin, Lucius William O’Brien, 15th Baron (Beatrice’s brother)

Irwin, Jack

Isaacs, Godfrey

Isaacs, Harry

Isaacs, Rufus (
later
1st Marquess of Reading)

Isle of Wight

Italy: GM honoured in war with Turkey (1911) GM visits in wartime GM’s political career in enters war (1915)
see also
Griffone, Villa; Rome; Victor Emmanuel III, King

Jack the Ripper

Jackson, Captain Henry

James, Captain Lionel

Jameson, Andrew (Annie’s father)

Jameson-Davis, Henry (GM’s cousin)

Jamison, Captain (of
St Paul
)

Japan: war with Russia (1904-5)

Jeffries, Jim

Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
(German liner)

Kemp, George: assists GM with GM in Newfoundland in New York on SS
Philadelphia
prepares for Edward VII’s coronation fits up equipment on
Carlo Alberto
summoned to Kiel van Raaltes visit on GM’s motor car keeps Beatrice and Degna amused in Poole helps refurbish yacht
Elettra

Kendall, Captain Harold

Kennelly, Arthur

Kiel

Kingston Regatta, Dublin Bay

Kipling, Rudyard ‘Wireless’ (short story)

Kitchener, General Horatio Herbert (
later
1st Earl)

kites and balloons: as aerial supports

Knollys, Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount

Kronprinz Wilhelm
(German ship)

Kronstadt

Kroonland
, SS

Lake Champlain
, SS

Langtry, Lillie (Emilie Charlotte le Breton)

Larnard, Lyman C.

Laurentic
, SS

Lavernock Point, Glamorgan

Le Neve, Ethel

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Levitor kites

Liberté
(French newspaper)

lightbeams: as message-senders

Lipton, Sir Thomas

Liverpool: Marconi training school in

Livingstone, David

Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall

Lloyd George, David: in ‘Marconi scandal’

Lodge, (Sir) Oliver: scientific interests interest in spiritualism scepticism over transatlantic signals belief in ether Commander Barber cites patent rights retained by Marconi Company
Raymond

Lodge, Raymond

Louisberg, Cape Breton

Lucania
, SS

Lusitania
, SS sunk by German U-boat

McClure, Henry

McClure, Robert

McClure, Samuel

McClure’s
(US magazine)

Macdonald, Sir Claude

McGrath, P.T.

Machrihanish, Mull of Kintyre

McKenzie, F.A.

Madeira Hotel, Bournemouth

‘Maggies’ (magnetic receivers)

Maine
, USS

Majestic
, SS

Maltby, P.B.

Marconi, Alfonso (GM’s brother): birth assists GM with early experiments music-making as best man at GM’s wedding

Marconi, Annie (
née
Jameson; GM’s mother): supports GM in London background marriage and children on Isle of Wight in Poole, Dorset concern for GM’s comforts corresponds with GM and GM’s marriage relations writes to GM on
Pisa
death

Marconi, Beatrice (
née
O’Brien; GM’s first wife;
later
Marignoli): meets and first rejects GM marriage to GM marriage relations accompanies GM to Glace Bay birth and death of daughter birth of daughter Degna later pregnancy and birth of son stays in Poole in Stockholm for GM’s Nobel Prize award lives at Eaglehurst (Hampshire) booked on
Titanic
’s maiden voyage in Italy in World War I and birth of Gioia Jolanda divorce from GM and remarriage objects to GM’s sale of Rome home pays respects at GM’s lying-in-state

Marconi, Cristina (
née
Bezzi-Scali; GM’s second wife)

Marconi, Degna (
later
Paresce; GM’s daughter): and GM’s parents’ marriage on GM’s cricket-playing on Inez Milholland birth childhood in Poole and mother’s social life in London on life at Eaglehurst booked on
Titanic
’s maiden voyage and father’s glass eye in World War I

Marconi, Domenico (GM’s grandfather)

Marconi, Gioia Jolanda (GM’s daughter): birth

Marconi, Giulia (
née
de Renolis; GM’s grandmother)

Marconi, Giulio (GM’s son): at Eaglehurst booked on
Titanic
’s maiden voyage in World War I

Marconi, Giuseppe (GM’s father): first marriage meets and marries Annie and GM’s early
experiments and funding of GM’s patent rights GM visits in Italy death

Marconi, Guglielmo: demonstrates at Toynbee Hall (1896) fluency in English encouraged by mother character and manner early experiments birth and upbringing boyhood reading and studies fails naval entrance examination moves to London demonstrates at Lavernock-Flatholm Island financial backing for patent rights ship-to-shore experiments on south coast music-making companies formed using name uses Morse code in USA appearance as self-publicist engagement to Josephine Holman foreign rivals manufacturing companies builds station at Cape Cod cricketing acquires motorcycle in Newfoundland first hears transatlantic signals honoured in New York Josephine Holman breaks off engagement signals on SS
Philadelphia
sails on
Carlo Alberto
manufactures magnetic coil detector in Kiel falls ill home life and transatlantic signals between Poldhu and Glace Bay honoured in Italy engagement to Inez Milholland security of signals breached visits St Louis World’s Fair motoring meets and falls in love with Beatrice O’Brien marriage to Beatrice jealousy over Beatrice later philandering birth and death of daughter finances birth of daughter Degna marriage relations and SS
Republic
rescue shares Nobel
Prize for physics (1909) birth of son serves on
Pisa
in Italo-Turkish war (1911) financial success cancels trip on
Titanic
and
Titanic
disaster injured in road accident glass eye predictions about political effects of wireless technology and shares scandal (1912-13) granted honorary GCVO political career in Italy status in World War I military service in World War I birth of third child (Gioia Jolanda) death, funeral and tributes mausoleum post-war activities and travels buys steam yacht separation and divorce from Beatrice second marriage (to Cristina) Appleton’s obituary tribute to converts to Catholicism achievements fortune and will

Marconi, Luigi (GM’s half-brother)

Marconi, Maria Elettra Elena Anna (GM/Cristina’s daughter)

Marconi House, London

Marconi International Marine Company: set up expansion and operations

Marconi Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company: set up GM reports to on US reception German hostility to contract with Royal Navy and de Forest in Russo-Japanese war withdraws from St Louis World’s Fair expansion training schools prospers association with Deutsche Betriebsgesellschaft and shares scandal (1912-13) taken over by British government in Great War manufactures radio receivers

Marconiograph
(company magazine)

Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria

Marignoli, Marchesa Beatrice
see
Marconi, Beatrice

Marignoli, Marchese Liborio: Beatrice marries

Marriott, Robert H.

Marsden, Chief Officer (of
Philadelphia
)

Mary, Queen of George V (
earlier
Princess of Wales)

Maskelyne, Nevil

Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney:
The Condition of England

Maupassant, Guy de

Maxwell, James Clerk
see
Clerk Maxwell, James

May Flower
(coastal steamer)

Melba, Dame Nellie

Merrick, Joseph (‘the Elephant Man’)

Milholland, Inez (
later
Boissevain): engagement to GM GM breaks off engagement travels to Europe in First World War

Mills, Captain A.R.

Mirabello, Admiral Carlo

Moffett, Cleveland

Monet, Claude

Montrose
, SS

Morgan, John Pierpont

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese

Morse, Sidney

Morse code

Motor Car Act (1904)

motor cars: beginnings

Muirhead, Alexander

Mull of Kintyre

Mullion, Cornwall
see also
Poldhu Hotel

Mullis, P.R.

Murray (of Elibank), Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, 1st Baron

Murray, Dr Erskine

Murray, George

Mussolini, Benito: commissions mausoleum for GM rise to power invades Abyssinia orders state funeral for GM

Myers, Frederic

Nantucket

Narragansett
(oil tanker)

National Electric Signalling Company (NESCO)

New England Electronic Music Company

New York: GM visits

New York Electronic Music Company

New York Herald
: GM covers America’s Cup races for reports Admiral Dewey’s homecoming publicises GM uses searchlight for messages and German hostility to GM and
Titanic
story

New York Times
: reports GM’s successes on New York reception for GM and GM’s differences with Germans on de Forest’s broadcasting claims reports
Republic
disaster and
Titanic
story on Sayville station passing on information in Great War and US technological development in Great War obituary tribute to GM

Newfoundland

Niagara Falls

Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia

Niton, Isle of Wight

nitro-glycerine

Nobel, Alfred

Nobel, Immanuel

Nobel Foundation: established awards physics prize to GM

Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount
see
Harmsworth, Alfred

O’Brien, Beatrice
see
Marconi, Beatrice

O’Brien, Lilah (Beatrice’s sister)

Olympic
, SS

Osborne
(royal yacht)

Osborne House, Isle of Wight

Osman, Lieut.-Colonel A.H.:
Pigeons in the Great War

Ottawa

Page, Major Samuel Flood

Paget, Percy

Palladino, Eusapia

Paris: in World War I
see also
Eiffel Tower

Parkin, George

Pennington, John

Philadelphia
, SS

Philippines: US naval action in

Phillips, Jack

pigeons (homing)
see
carrier pigeons

Piper, Leonore

Pisa, Italy
see
Coltano

Pisa
(Italian warship)

Poldhu Hotel, Mullion, Cornwall: wireless station established signals heard across Atlantic station communicates with SS
Philadelphia
communicates with
Carlo Alberto
King Victor Emmanuel visits transmitter power and discharges communicates with Glace Bay Prince and Princess of Wales visit messages intercepted

Ponce
, SS

Poole, Dorset

Popov (Popoff), Alexander

Popov-Ducretet wireless system

Port Arthur

Post Dispatch
(St Louis)

Post Office (British): Preece works for loses patent rights to Marconi company monopoly on telegraphic messaging issues licences for wireless telegraphy licenses wireless

Poulain, M. & Mme. (of Haven Hotel, Poole)

Preece, Sir William: encourages young GM induction process background and career GM first meets experiments at Flatholm Island-Lavernock demonstrates Bell’s telephone to Queen Victoria and Slaby and GM’s forming commercial company Heaviside criticises Commander Barber cites