Английская Википедия:Alfonso Marconi
Alfonso Marconi (1865Шаблон:Spaced ndash1936) was an Italian businessman and collector of stringed instruments, most famous for assisting his younger brother Guglielmo Marconi in his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission.[1]
Biography
Early life and education
Alfonso Marconi was born into the Italian nobility in 1865, the first son of Giuseppe Marconi (an Italian aristocratic landowner from Porretta Terme) and of his Irish/Scots wife, Annie Jameson (daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, Ireland, and granddaughter of John Jameson, founder of whiskey distillers Jameson & Sons).[2] Alfonso was educated at Bedford School in England between 1876 and 1880, during his peripatetic childhood.[3]
Assistant to Guglielmo Marconi
Alfonso Marconi assisted his younger brother Guglielmo Marconi with his early experiments, and in the summer of 1895 Guglielmo moved his experimentation outdoors.[4] After increasing the length of transmitter and receiver antennas, arranging them vertically, and positioning an antenna so that it touched the ground, Guglielmo significantly increased the range he could achieve.[5]
Alfonso stood on one side of a hill near to the family home of Villa Griffone in Pontecchio, Italy, and fired a shot which was transmitted over the hill to Guglielmo: a distance of approximately Шаблон:Convert. Guglielmo concluded that, with additional funding and research, a device could become capable of spanning greater distances and would prove valuable both commercially and militarily.[6]
Later life
Alfonso Marconi was a director of the American International Marine Communication Company and an avid collector of stringed instruments.[7][8]
He died suddenly at a London hotel on the evening of Friday 24 April 1936 following a heart attack (his brother died following a heart attack in 1937)[9] and is buried with his mother on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
References
- ↑ Obituary, The Times, 27 April 1936, p.16
- ↑ Marconi: the Irish connection, Michael Sexton, Four Courts Press, 2005
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Marconi, "Wireless Telegraphic Communication: Nobel Lecture, 11 December 1909." Nobel Lectures. Physics 1901–1921. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1967: 196–222. p. 206.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ The Times, 28 April 1936, p.1
- Английская Википедия
- Страницы с неработающими файловыми ссылками
- 1865 births
- 1936 deaths
- Burials at Highgate Cemetery
- Italian emigrants to the United States
- Italian expatriates in England
- Nobility from Bologna
- Italian people of Scottish descent
- Italian people of Irish descent
- People educated at Bedford School
- Businesspeople from Bologna
- Страницы, где используется шаблон "Навигационная таблица/Телепорт"
- Страницы с телепортом
- Википедия
- Статья из Википедии
- Статья из Английской Википедии
