DocumentCode
3319253
Title
Marconi in Switzerland True story or fairy tale ?
Author
Gardiol, Fred ; Fournier, Yves
Author_Institution
Lab. of Electromagn. & Acoust., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne
fYear
2008
fDate
11-12 Sept. 2008
Firstpage
12
Lastpage
19
Abstract
According to the reminiscences of a senior citizen, at some time during the summer of 1895 Marconi carried out original wireless transmission experiments near the village of Salvan in Switzerland. The IEEE acknowledged this event and inaugurated a Historical Milestone on September 22, 2003. And now the ITU recognized the site of Salvan ldquofor its invaluable contribution to the Telecommunication Heritage.rdquo But Marconi apparently never mentioned the name of Salvan, and this historical episode is not recorded in the archives of the Marconi Museum in Pontecchio. Why?
Keywords
history; radiocommunication; Marconi Museum; Salvan; Switzerland; wireless transmission; Acoustics; Batteries; Coils; Helium; History; Laboratories; Rail transportation; Senior citizens; Transmitters; Wire; Electromagnetism; Marconi; Radio; Wireless;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
History of Telecommunications Conference, 2008. HISTELCON 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location
Paris
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2530-3
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2531-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668706
Filename
4668706
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