Signor Marconi’s Magic Box: The invention that sparked the radio revolution. Gavin Weightman

       For my father

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Introduction

1 In Darkest London

2 Silkworms and Whiskey

3 Sparks in the Attic

4 In the Heart of the Empire

5 Dancing on the Ether

6 Beside the Seaside

7 Texting Queen Victoria

8 An American Investigates

9 The Romance of Morse Code

10 A New York Welcome

11 Atlantic Romance

       12 Adventure at Mullion Cove

       13 An American Forecast

       14 Kite-Flying in Newfoundland

       15 The Spirits of the Ether

       16 Fishing in the Ether

       17 The End of the Affair

       18 Farewell the Pigeon Post

       19 The Power of Darkness

       20 The Hermit of Paignton

       21 The King’s Appendix

       22 The Thundering Professor

       23 A Real Colonel Sellers

       24 Defeat in the Yellow Sea

       25 A Wireless Rat

       26 Dazzling the Millions

       27 ‘Marky’ and his Motor

       28 On the American Frontier

       29 Marconi gets Married

       30 Wireless at War

       31 America’s Whispering Gallery

       32 A Voice on the Air

       33 The Bells of Budapest

       34 Wireless to the Rescue

       35 Dynamite for Marconi

       36 Le Match Dew-Crippen

       37 A Marriage on the Rocks

       38 Ice and the Ether

       39 ‘It’s a CQD, Old Man’

       40 After the Titanic

       41 The Crash

       42 The Suspect Italian

       43 Eclipse of Marconi on the Eiffel Tower

       44 In Bed with Mussolini

       Epilogue

       Index