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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MARCONI

MARCONI Mar *co "ni, a. [After Guglielmo Marconi (b. 1874 ), Italian inventor. ]

 

Defn: Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aërial, coherer, station, system, etc.

 

MARCONIGRAM

MARCONIGRAM Mar *co "ni *gram, n. [Marconi + -gram. ]

 

Defn: A Marconi wireless message.

 

MARCONIGRAPH

MARCONIGRAPH Mar *co "ni *graph, n. [Marconi + -graph. ]

 

Defn: The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy.

 

MARCONI'S LAW

MARCONI'S LAW Mar *co "ni's law. (Wireless Teleg.)

 

Defn: The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

 

MARCONISM

MARCONISM Mar *co "nism, n.

 

Defn: The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.

 

MARCONI SYSTEM

MARCONI SYSTEM Mar *co "ni system. (Elec.)

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Marconi, Guglielmo

Mar co ni, Guglielmo |märˈkōnē mɑrˈkoʊni | (1874 –1937 ), Italian electrical engineer; the father of radio. In 1912, Marconi produced a continuously oscillating wave, essential for the transmission of sound. He went on to develop shortwave transmission over long distances. Nobel Prize for Physics (1909 ), shared with Carl Braun.

 

Oxford Dictionary

Marconi, Guglielmo

Marconi, Guglielmo |mɑːˈkəʊni, Italian marˈkəɔni | (1874 –1937 ), Italian electrical engineer, the founder of radio. In 1912 Marconi produced a continuously oscillating wave, essential for the transmission of sound. He went on to develop short-wave transmission over long distances. Nobel Prize for Physics (1909 ).

 

Duden Dictionary

Marconi

Mar co ni Eigenname |Marc o ni |italienischer Physiker

 

Marconiantenne

Mar co ni an ten ne Substantiv, feminin , die |Marc o niantenne |die Marconiantenne; Genitiv: der Marconiantenne, Plural: die Marconiantennen nach dem Erfinder G. Marconi, 1874 –1937 einfachste Form einer geerdeten Sendeantenne

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

Marconi

Mar co ni /mɑː r kóʊni /名詞 マルコーニ Guglielmo / ɡuːljélmoʊ /, 1874 --1937; イタリアの電気技師 科学者 .