Word: guglielmo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Howard Stern b) Guglielmo Marconi c) Thomas Edison d) Jack Benny...
...Italy's Guglielmo Marconi conducts first transatlantic radio transmission...
Already, in 1900, Guglielmo Marconi had worked out the essentials of radio. The phonograph was fast evolving into the basis for a recording industry. By 1912, 5 million Americans a day were attending a new entertainment called movies. New Orleans echoed with the sounds that were jumbling together gloriously as jazz. Denizens of Tin Pan Alley were polishing the wit and jaunty lyricism of the pop song and revamping European operetta into an original American theater form: the musical...
...plenty of questions to address right now. Barely 10% of the matter in the universe has ever been found; the rest remains a mystery. Biologists understand the structure of DNA, but that no more reveals how life began than a schematic of a radio reveals the identity of Guglielmo Marconi. These and other big questions may yet be solved...
...small, incremental steps that had marked the progress of much of the 19th century. Inventions like the railroad or the telegraph or the typewriter had enabled people to get on with their ordinary lives a little more conveniently. The news, in 1901, that an Italian physicist named Guglielmo Marconi had received wireless telegraphic messages sent from Cornwall to Newfoundland was hailed as a triumph, but few discerned its full meaning: the birth of a communications revolution. Rather, it was another welcome convenience...