Guglielmo Marconi: Signals Across the Sea
By Jamie Glick
Length13h 39m
About this audiobook
In December 1901, on a cliff in Newfoundland, a 27-year-old Italian held a telephone receiver to his ear in a gale and heard three faint clicks out of the Atlantic — the letter S, tapped in Cornwall, 3,000 kilometres away, through empty air. The experts said the signal should have shot off the curve of the Earth into space. Guglielmo Marconi did not invent the radio waves. He did something bigger: he turned them into a system, a company, and a network that taught the world to speak across the sea.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length13 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11. Chapter 1: The Boy in the Attic (1874–1895)
22. Chapter 2: Wireless to the World (1895–1897)
33. Chapter 3: Across the Water (1898–1901)
44. Chapter 4: Proving the Impossible (1901–1907)
55. Chapter 5: The Nobel, the Scandal, the Sea Disaster (1907–1914)
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66. Chapter 6: War and the Short Wave (1914–1923)
77. Chapter 7: The Marchese and the Regime (1923–1930)
88. Chapter 8: Around the World on a Beam (1930–1937)
99. Chapter 9: Who Invented Radio? (1873–1943)
1010. Chapter 10: The Wireless World (1901–Today)
1111. Special Note
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