Senator Marconi Astonished At Rapid Progress of Radio

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 13, 23 November 1928, Page 29

Senator Marconi Astonished At Rapid Progress of Radio

IVE years had elapsed since Senator Guglielimo Marconi faced a microphone.. This long period was recently broken when he gave a brief message through WRC at Washington during his hurried visit to the United States to address the International Radio Conference, ‘Marconi had no time to visit the station, so wires were strung through his hotel corridors and a microphone installed in his room. He spoke, in shirt sleeves, neck-tie in hand, whilst dressing to attend a farewell dinner : his honour at the Italian Enibassy, after which he was to catch a. midnight train to New York to catch his boat which sailed on the following morning. The amazement of the world, twenty years ago, at the invention of the young Italian genius, seemingly was equalled-by Marconi’s. amazement at the extent to which radio has developed.