[Boatanchors] An interesting book

[James Duffer]

>>Thanks for the lead, the book is terrific!!!
>>
>>The author does a great job of transporting the reader to the Victorian 
>>and Edwardian eras and the tumultuous changes at the turn of the century.
>>
>>It is incredible how little understood was the new technology.  Marconi 
>>was successful by sheer dint of his efforts.  After receiving the Nobel 
>>prize in physics he admitted that he had no idea how radio really worked.
>>
>>Jim
>
>
>Probably so, as there are those that believe that Marconi only advanced the 
>application of radio (was the first to broadcast) while Tesla invented 
>radio.  See article in "Nuts and Volts" Feb. 2007 article by Louis Frenzel 
>W5LEF.  I don't have a firm opinion, in fact I've always wondered which was 
>invented first, the radio receiver or the radio transmitter.  My guess is 
>the receiver although they could't listen to any radio transmission 
>(transmitters not invented yet) they probably listened to static and noise.
>
>73, Jim de wd4air
>

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