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THIS account of ‘wireless’ by the builder of the pioneer stations of Cape Cod and Glace Bay, colleague of Marconi since 1900, protagonist of ‘imperial wireless communications’, and recently engineer-in-chief of the Marconi Co., is full of interest and colour; it will be widely read and enjoyed. A picture of Marconi's early and heroic work has not been readily pieced together from other sources; here it will be found vividly and satisfactorily drawn, with appendixes of technical detail. There are, among others, interesting and suggestive chapters on modern commercial stations, wireless in war-on land, at sea and in the air- and wireless to the rescue at sea. One of the most valuable chapters, since it contains financial data usually difficult of access, is that on wireless as a career, which merits assimilation by all who are interested in the place of the technical ‘expert’ in modern life.
Wireless Over Thirty Years.
By R. N. Vyvyan. Pp. xiv + 256 + 16 plates. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1933.) 8s. 6d. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 132, 558 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132558b0
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