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7 words match “MARCONI”

MARCONI a.
Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aërial, coherer, station, system, etc.
MARCONI SYSTEM n.
A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.
MARCONI'S LAW n.
The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.
MARCONIGRAM n.
A Marconi wireless message.
MARCONIGRAPH n.
The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy.
MARCONISM n.
The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.
WIRELESS a.
Oliver Lodge, and others, the first commercially successful system was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897. Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency set up by an induction coil in an oscillator, these waves being launched into space through a lofty antenna. The receiving apparatus consisted of…