My Beloved Marconi book by his wife and daughter

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gm5bkc

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Has anyone read the book "My Beloved Marconi"  by his wife Maria Cristina Marconi, and daughter Elettra Marconi ?

It came out in 1999.  I got a copy 20 years ago and it's fun to pick it up and read the variety of chapters about their life, travels around the world (the US, Japan, Korea, China and India), and of course his experiments with radio in various countries.

It doesn't seem to be rare or expensive :-)

Glenn AE0Q
 
Hiya Glenn!

I've heard of that one, but I don't (yet) have a copy of it.

One I'm reading at the moment is called "Marconi, Master of Space", which seems to have been written while Marconi was still alive.

I also have one called, "My Father Marconi" by his daughter, Degna Marconi. Then another called, "Marconi's Atlantic Leap".

Ooh, and a book entitled, "Signor Marconi's Magic Box". That copy is strange in that it is a proof copy never intend for sale!

There might be another one or two that I've forgotten about too. :-[

73, Mark...
 
Hi Mark!

Wow, you have a nice collection of Marconi books !!
I found an on-line text version of "Marconi, Master of Space" but it seems to have been scanned by an OCR of some kind, lots of mistakes but it is interesting reading !!

Just today I received a copy of a book about Samuel Morse from a friend that lives in France :-)  It was ordered via Amazon, "Lightning Man,  the Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse".  It looks like a really detailed biography.  I've never had any books about him, I'm looking forward to reading this one.

About 15 yrs ago my wife and I had an online bookstore.  For 5 years I spent almost every weekend driving around the Denver metro area going to estate sales buying books.  I'd stack 20 or so in heavy department store paper bags and fill my Honda Accord and head home.  Eventually our basement had 9000 used books, 5,000 cataloged and listed on all the used book sites.  We were selling about 40 to 50 a day, usually a dollar or less each, and breaking even on the shipping costs.  While buying all those books (average of 10 cents each), from all those varied owners, I never encountered a book about any radio stuff !!  I got a few about WW2 history but that was it.  Of course since they are mine, I kept the interesting ones for myself :-)
But then Amazon got into the bookselling business, selling books for ONE CENT and charging less for shipping than the Post Office cost, and we were out of business.  And I still have 8,000 used books stacked on shelves in my basement :-(

Glenn AE0Q
 
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