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Excerpt from Marconi published in The Daily Beast

How Marconi Gave Us the Wireless World In giving us the wireless world, the Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi was arguably the first truly global figure in modern communication Contact: A hundred years before iconic figures like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs permeated our lives, 60 years before Marshall McLuhan proclaimed media to be “the extensions …

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Book Announcement | Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World

“An obvious labor of love, this is the definitive biography of Marconi.” —Susan J. Douglas, author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination “MARCONI is a tour de force, revealing the fascinating history of one of the most influential figures in the history of modern technology and the communications revolution.” —David Kertzer, author of The …

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