His father wanted the young Ma. coni to grow up as a country gentleman, and, being-a musician himself, insisted that his son' should' study music. Instead' the young Maroon! devoted this spare time "to playing With apparatus of his ows in am alti: 'The' father several times threatened pitch it all out ut the. window, but"his. mother finally prevailed her husband to allow young Marconi give up music and pursue his scientific "tinkerings" without hind:
By 21 the young Marconi was able to give Is rst tangible demonstra: ton that "Hertzian. waves" properly developed, were capable of precticat application, But Taly was sceptical. No practical use inthe demonstration, was Acknowledged. Signra. "Maroon! thereupon took her son to England where, with the ald of her relatives, the was granted the firs patent for 1 practical system of wireless tele~ graphy. That was in 1896. Marcond vas only 22, lg, sagnthed the, heads of, the without wires between St. Martin's, general Post OMlice by telegraphing
e-Grand and. Thames Embankment.
"1001" messages were sent. between Cornwall and the isle of Wight, a distance of "Ik miles. "A. few months. later" Maroon! bridged the Auantic, receiving signals transmitted 2,100' mies away from Poldhu, Cornwall, to St John's Newfoundland, 'That ansmission, like the frst one from the barn to the old farm hand, consisted ofthe three dots of the fet er 'Though the world had doubted the start, twas loud with. praise when this feat' was accomplished, Honours were showered upon him by solentine "bodies and. governments fand newspapers on both sides of the [Atlantic praised the inventor.
Great solentist and business. man though he was, Maroon! affected none Jot the eccentricities or mannerisms Usually sociated with such. men, He was always immaculately. dressed and ook a great pride in' his per~ sonal appearance, 'Marconi was, twice married, His frst. wite "was" an "Trishwoman, Beatrice O'Brien, sister of Lord Inchiquin, 'They' were married in St. George's, Hanover Square, London.
1005." They "hed. a'son and two) daughters, "She divorced him in 1924 Flume and in the same" year married the Marquis @i Montecoront Tu, 1025. "Maroon obtained a annulment of the marriage from the Vatican and in'1926 he took for his second wife the Contessa. Mfaria was one of Marcont's beliefs that, wireless. would lead eventually {to intercourse between this world and the other planets and stars. He saw no reason why wireless waves [should not continue past the earth's atmosphere until they reached and were picked up by the most distant stars—Reuter, Radio Tribute by Britain seeciat 10 ME "Heme, wene London, July 21, Striking British tributes "will be bald to Marchese Guglielmo Marconi, the great Mahan inventor, who died in Rome yesterday, at his' State funeral in Bologna at 6 o'clock this afternoon, The Postmaster-General, Major G.
Tryon, has decided that, as a tribute to the great inventor, all Post Office wireless telegraph and wite-
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