Abstract
PROF. RIGHI has considerable claims to be regarded as the father of practical wireless telegraphy. It was from him that Marconi, as a student at Bologna, derived the knowledge of modern electricity which has enabled him to cross the gap which separates the Old World from the New. The benefits that the university and its professor have conferred on mankind by training a Marconi suggest the question: Should not universities be endowed with exceptional scholarships to assist exceptional men? The advantages of expending 100l. annually to help on students of average mediocrity are well known. On the other hand if a university should produce a man with the enterprise of Marconi once in 100 years, the advantage to the community of enabling him to carry on his experiments with the accumulated amount of an annuity that had been left unawarded during the interval cannot be overestimated.
La Telegrafia senza Filo.
By Augusto Righi Bernardo Dessau. Pp. vii + 518; wth 259 woodcuts. (Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1903.)
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La Telegrafia senza Filo . Nature 67, 582–583 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067582b0
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