McGill Prof. Marc Raboy on Marconi & Global Communications

Jun 7, 2023 · 45m 47s

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This week on The Learning Curve, McGill University Professor Marc Raboy, author of https://www.amazon.com/Marconi-Man-Who-Networked-World/dp/019090593X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=X6XN3M5DJL3C&keywords=Marconi%3A+The+Man+Who+Networked+the+World&qid=1686146204&s=books&sprefix=marconi+the+man+who+networked+the+world%2Cstripbooks%2C96&sr=1-1, explores how twentieth-century Italian communications pioneer Guglielmo Marconi made his world-changing discoveries. Prof. Raboy explores the...

This week on The Learning Curve, McGill University Professor Marc Raboy, author of Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World, explores how twentieth-century Italian communications pioneer Guglielmo Marconi made his world-changing discoveries. Prof. Raboy explores the global significance of Marconi’s first transoceanic signal transmission in 1901, and how today’s world of smartphones, Wi-Fi, satellite TV, GPS navigation, and wireless computer networking derives from Marconi’s historic work. Prof. Raboy closes the interview with a reading from his Marconi biography.

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