| The air is full of promises of miracles", a man wrote in London. Soon after, three dots and the letter S sputtered across the Atlantic Ocean. The New York Times ran a front-page story, which began with – "St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, December 12, 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi announced tonight the most wonderful scientific development of recent times." Thus the age of long-distance communication was born.
Almost hundred years have passed since then, and many key points in the propagation of information through radio, has come to an advanced stage. But for Marconi, life would not have been the same.
The story of Guglielmo Marconi is of a person who never went to public school, never went to a university but was predominantly interested in the practical applications of scientific knowledge. He was an engineer in the definition of the Institution of Civil Engineers : One who utilizes and controls the energies of Nature for the noble cause of benefit of mankind. |
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