Page's Engineering Weekly Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...he was "opposed to water-tube boilers. The discussion was, however.'curtailedfby the time limit, and 'someTnotableTcontributionsJhanded in will only be available in the official report. MR. MARCONI'S FORTHCOMING MARRIAGE. More than one story has been current recently as to the forthcoming marriage of Mr. Marconi. The industrious paragraphists have pledged the affections of Mr. Marconi in a wholesale kind of way, and have not hesitated to give their stories a touch of veracity by the addition of names and details. It is well therefore to state that an engagement has been authoritatively announced between Mr. Marconi and the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, sister to Lord Inchiquin, and one of the pretty daughters of Ellen Lady Inchiquin. Mr. Marconi is Irish by right of his mother, and his future wife is a young and charming Irishwoman. The O'Briens are one of the most ancient families in Ireland. They claim descent from the great warrior who fell at the battle of Clontarf in 1014; and also from a Murrough O'Brien, brother of a king of Thomond. The barony dates from 1543. Guglielmo Marconi was bon in Bologna, April 25 th, 1875. He was educated in Leghorn, under Professor Rosa, and, subsequently, at the University of Bologna( in which city were carried out the first experiments in connection with his system of wireless telegraphy. Marconi's invention was successfully tested in England between Penartb and Weston, and later by the Italian Ministry of Marine at Spezia. Wireless telegraphic communications were established between France and England in 1899; two years later he was enabled to transmit signals across the Atlantic Ocean from Poldhu, Cornwall, to St. John's, Newfoundland. In 1902, Mr. Marconi's system was installed on board the ItaUan cruiser Carlo Alberto...