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Modern technologies

Modern technologies… A colleague working in this specialized field explained to me what is happening n new types of digital TV, new DVDs where you can store up to 50GB, new types of radio where you can listen to stations from around the world. The world has become the global village that Marshall McLuhan spoke about more than forty years ago. He was the first person to popularize the concept of a global village, to consider its social effects…

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Marconi and Salvan: Dawn of wireless telegraphy

In 2009 a book by the Marconi Foundation, Salvan, Switzerland, was published to commemorate the centenary (1909-2009) of the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Guglielmo Marconi, shared with German physicist, Karl Ferdinand Braun, for important radio communications. ‘Marconi et Salvan: a l’aube de la télégraphie sans fil’, by Yves Fournier and Freddy Gardiol, (pp.104), adds to the worldwide collection of historic accounts, experiments and pioneering achievements of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937). The book features a collection of family pictures…

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