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Marconi and the Radio
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June 13th-28th, 2009 Nobel winners at Villa Nobel
MARCONI AND THE RADIO
exhibition
Friday, June 19th MARCONI AND THE RADIO: STORY AND DISCOVERIES OF A GREAT ITALIAN NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER
round table conference
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Joseph H. Taylor Jr. Piergiorgio Odifreddi Gabriele Falciasecca Renzo Arbore special guest: chairman:
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From Meucci to Marconi
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June 7th, 13th, 14th, 2009 FROM MEUCCI TO MARCONI An event in which telephone and radio shine have shown themselves in a superlative way. In our era where we feel close even if separated by thousands of kilometres and, at the same time, are immersed in a world made of mobile phones, radio stations and research on electromagnetic waves, it is interesting to look back in time – even for just a moment – and rediscover that two Italian geniuses, Antonio Meucci and Guglielmo Marconi, have been the fathers of modern communications. Their stories, their inventions and the evolution of their discoveries have been put on display for the public at Borgo Malanotte during these festivities, precisely in the year in which we have celebrated the centenary of the Nobel Prize awarded to Guglielmo Marconi. The event has helped us remind that our future is profoundly linked to our past. Thus it is not by chance that telephone and radio have been brought together in order to be rediscovered and to remember their origins, which date back to the second half of the Nineteenth century. It was at that time that Antonio Meucci conceived the telephone, as was officially recognized, even if 150 years later, by the American Supreme Court. Some years down the line it was Guglielmo Marconi who gave life to the radio and pioneered in wireless communications.
What has been proposed by "Cose dei tempi antichi" is thus a leap in the past that spurs us to go forward, and savor with trust what the communication world is holding for us.
Curated by the
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Italian Republic Day
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June 2th, 2009 The celebrations for the Guglielmo Marconi Nobel Prize centenary took place on the occasion of the Republic Day reception offered by the Italian Consul General for the Cantons of Fribourg, Neuchâtel, Valais and Vaud. The celebrations were attended by Consul Adolfo Barattolo, the President of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, the Mayor of Montreaux, the Director of the Swiss Museum of Sound and Image and Elettra Marconi Giovanelli, Guglielmo Marconi’s daughter. On the occasion, soprano Véronique Mercier sang both Italian and Swiss national anthems.
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Tesla and Marconi
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June 16th, 2009 Isa Topic 2009 TESLA, MARCONI, AND THE RACE TO DEVELOP WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, 1890-1905 Prof. W. Bernard Carlson Carlson, great expert in History of Electricity and Technology has long been working on a biography of Tesla. In his magisterial lecture at Bologna, Carlson has told and compared the stories of both inventors, Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi, one in the United States and the other in Europe, who were the first to experiment with the hertzian waves trying to transmit at distance. Tesla, born in 1856, had already proved in 1892/93 that electric impulses could be sent from a point to another within few metres without the support of cables. Marconi, born in 1874, had instead transmitted in 1895 a true signal, that is an impulse containing a message, over a natural obstacle. From that point their routes started to diverge year by year. Tesla planned to sprinkle wireless electric power all over the earth (through the ground in emission and through the air in remission). He retired at Colorado Springs where he tried to build a great transmitting station. Marconi worked constantly at developing his wireless communication system (through the air in emission and through the ground in remission) and experimented step by step until 1901 when he could transmit a signal across the Atlantic. Marconi was successful, because he had clear in his mind both the goal and the means to attain it, whereas Tesla’s idea was vague and, as far as we know today, also unfeasible. Nevertheless Tesla, before Marconi, was able to send hertzian waves at distance. There is thus no doubt that Marconi was the pioneer of wireless telegraphy, while Tesla was that of wireless power connection.
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Three Centenaries
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May 23rd, 2009 The curious coincidence of THREE CENTENARIES (birth of Bologna Football Club, birth of the Giro d’Italia - the Tour of Italy bicycle race - and Nobel Prize to Guglielmo Marconi) has been commemorated during the Giro stage at Bologna. In the morning, Francesca Menarini (President of Bologna Football Club), Angelo Zomegnan (Director of the Giro) and Stefano Alvergna, representative for the Nobel Prize Centenary Committee, have held a meeting in the beautiful setting of the Farnese Chapel. In the afternoon, after a live special dedicated by Rai (Italian State Broadcaster) to Marconi and Villa Griffone, Francesca Menarini and Giancarlo Corazza have rewarded the stage winner with a plaque and a medal in memory of this triple centenary.
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Radio Communication Pioneer
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May 22nd-October 31st, 2009 GUGLIELMO MARCONI: RADIO COMMUNICATION PIONEER AND PHISICS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER 1909
On the occasion of the Guglielmo Marconi Nobel Prize centenary, the House of Music has organised a precious exhibition on the radio to remember the great scientist. A selection of radio sets coming from the Patané collection and containing both civil and military equipments has been exhibited in the House of Sound. There were also workshops and scientific lectures given by radio transmission experts. Concerts Hall at the House of Music Tuesday, May 26th “Guglielmo Marconi: the origins of Wireless” Follows: Wednesday, May 27th “Guglielmo Marconi scientific legacy” Follows: Guided tours of the exhibitions
by Dr Carlo Vignali - Italian Radio Amateurs Association, Parma. Organised in cooperation with the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, the National Committee for the Guglielmo Marconi Nobel Prize centenary celebrations, the Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications, the Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "Leonardo da Vinci”, the Liceo Scientifico Guglielmo Marconi and the Italian Radio Amateurs Association of Parma.
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Wireless Pioneer
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May 18th-30th, 2009 Within the Italian Festival in Hungary, under the patronage of the Italian Ambassador, Mr. Gian B. Campagnola From May 18th to 30th exhibition May 28th seminars
Official language: English Organisation
Italian Embassy at Budapest, Office of the Scientific Consul in cooperation with
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Marconi Galaxy
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April 27th-28th, 2009 MARCONI GALAXY Isa Topic 2009 - International Interdisciplinary Conference
Opening and Welcome Remarks Roberto Grandi, Provost of International Affairs, University of Bologna The Marconi Galaxy: introducing the project and the research group Barbara Valotti, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation Guglielmo Marconi: Man, Myth, History, Heritage Dario Braga, ISA, University of Bologna (chairperson) Voices from the Past: Radio, Witnesses, Imagination Seth Feldman, York University, Toronto (chairperson) Music in the Galaxy (Part One) Loris Azzaroni, President, R. Philharmonic Academy, Bologna (chairperson) Music in the Galaxy (Part Two) Duo Alterno (Riccardo Piacentini & Tiziana Scandaletti): From Telescope to Telegraph, to Fotomusica (1609 -1909 -2009) Tuesday, April 28th, at the Sala Mozart The Marconi Galaxy: Exploring the Infosphere Francesco Paresce, Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics, National Institute of Astrophysics, Bologna (chairperson) Marconi Galaxy: Cultural Models, Imaginary, Media Roberto Grandi, University of Bologna (chairperson) Further Explorations Conference wrap up and presentation of futures events and research activities In collaboration with: . |
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Marconi Day
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April 25th, 2009 MARCONI DAY Holy Mess in the Guglielmo Marconi Mausoleum.
Villa Griffone Great Hall
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ICT Global Forum
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April 22th-24th, 2009 THE GUGLIELMO MARCONI ICT GLOBAL FORUM & EXHIBITION
Wednesday, April 22th
Thursday, April 23th
Friday, April 24th
Speakers: Sergio Cofferati, Stefano Alvergna, Oddone Sangiorgi, Roberto Azzano, Gabriele Falciasecca, Guidalberto Guidi, Ennio Lucarelli, Gerardo Mombelli, Stefano Agnelli, Mario Rinaldi, Duccio Campagnoli, Riccardo Garosci, Sergio Antocicco, Dino Bortolotto, Biagio De Marchis, Sergio Rossi, Andrea Valboni, Giovanni Cancellieri, Paolo Dalla Chiara, Walter Munarini, Alessandro Abrami, Andrea Carassai, Michele Luglio, Giorgio Rosso Cicogna, Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli, Piergiorgio Menia, Roberto Casini, Kussai Shahin, Bernt Fanghol, Fabio Fonda, Gian Carlo Corazza, Felice Monaco, Alessandro Betti, Giuseppe Cason, Giuseppe Tetti, Roberto Vacca, Marco Delfino, Arne Bergby, Ozalp Babaoglu, Giorgio De Michelis, Roberto Siagri, Rodolfo Vignocchi, Marco Zamperini, Jean Paul Ballerini, Alfredo Di Gennaro, Mattia Trazzi, Maurizio Martinozzi, Maurizio Garavello, Roberto Branz, Domenico Dominoni, Guido Frabotti, Enrico Nasi, Paolo Salin, Massimo Carlotti, Antonio Baldassarra, Claudio De Falco, Dario Amata, Giuseppe Bonacina, Claudio Chiarenza, Gianluca Cristoni, Gianluca Ferré, Elio Iadevaia, Gianfranco Laganà, Stefano Pileri, Enrico Postacchini, Carlo Mochi Sismondi, Michele Amoruso, Massimiliano Bottaro, Cristiano Cafferata, Paolo Carminati, Pierangelo Felici, Andrea Valboni, Fabrizio Fujani, Gaudenzio Garavini, Maria Pia Giovannini, Manfredi Palmeri, Stefano Trumpy, Antonella G. Pizzaleo, Domenico Laforenza, Joy Marino, Rita Forsi, Vittorio Bertola, Roberto Sortino, Maurizio Lenzi, Nicola Galante, Pietro Felisi, Lorenza De Vincenzis, Massimo Galbiati, Alessandro Gencarelli, Lella Mazzoli, Michele Ficara Manganelli, Michele Morciano, Giorgio Pacifici, Giuseppe Paruolo, Filippo Renga, Massimiliano Cariola, Roberto Giacchi, Massimiliano Parini, Mauro Felicori, Angelo Guglielmi, Francesco Braschi, Francesca Alonzo, Antonella Guidazzoli, Alfredo Ronchi, Antonia Pasqua Recchia, Nadia Scardeoni, Sergio Bonora, Stefano Festa, Franco Giovani, Vincenzo Lecchi, Gianluca Mazzini Exhibition on new technologies
"Innovazione 2009" (Innovation 2009) Prize Award to Lepida spa e to the Farnesina web site. |
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A Nobel Teacher: Vincenzo Rosa
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March 28th-April 13th, 2009 In the year of Marconi Nobel Prize centenary, the town of Candelo (Biella) in cooperation with the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, the Biella Radio Amateurs Association and the Florence Italradio Committee has paid tribute to its famous citizen through a exhibition and a roundtable conference dedicated to Professor Vincenzo Rosa, Guglielmo Marconi’s first teacher. Vincenzo Rosa was born in Turin on June 11th 1848. In 1884 he married Aurelia Pozzo, from Candelo, and died at Candelo in 1908. The exhibition A NOBEL TEACHER: VINCENZO ROSA AND GUGLIELMO MARCONI opened on Saturday, March 28th and closed on April 13th. Still on March 28th, after celebrating the new Via Rosa (Rosa Street, named after Vincenzo Rosa) with the local Candelo S. Giacomo Band and after visiting Villa Rosa, where a plaque was set, the roundtable conference "Vincenzo Rosa, Marconi’s teacher, 100 years after the Nobel Prize to the 'father' of Wireless" was held with the participation of Elettra Marconi Giovanelli, Professor Gabriele Falciasecca, speakers from the Italradio Committee (Luigi Cobisi, Saverio Meloni, Paolo Morandotti), members of the Sella Foundation and of Professor Rosa’s family.
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The Swedish Royal Family visits the Marconi Museum
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March 27th, 2009 THE SWEDISH ROYAL FAMILY VISITS THE MARCONI MUSEUM In December 1909 Guglielmo Marconi was awarded the famous Nobel Prize for physics by King Gustav V of Sweden, in recognition of his studies and experiments in radio communications. On Friday March 27th the Swedish Crown Prince Carl XVI Gustaf - great-grandson of King Gustav V - and his wife Queen Silvia visited the Marconi Museum at Villa Griffone to commemorate the great Italian inventor. They visited the first laboratory of the young Guglielmo, the silkworms room, and then attended a brief science conference in the Great Hall of the Villa.
Speakers at the conference were Mrs Marilena Fabbri, Mayor of Sasso Marconi, Mr Gabriele Falciasecca, President of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, Mrs Barbara Valotti, Director of the Marconi Museum and Mr Cesare Avenia, Managing Director of Ericsson Italia, whose participation proved the scientific cooperation between Italy and Sweden.
The Swedish Royal Family tribute to the city of Bologna and to one of its most famous citizens, on the occasion of the Family official visit to Italy, has held great significance for the centenary opening. |
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Radio Man
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March 26th-29th, 2009 Duse Theatre, Bologna QUELLO DELLA RADIO (Radio Man) Script and Direction: Giorgio Comaschi Set Designer: Matteo Soltanto Produced by Procope Studio After his lucky debut in Australia and before moving to Canada for a new tour, Comaschi has presented in Italy his play-monologue which goes through the main steps of Marconi’s life and scientific career, using images and films of Marconi’s time.
The play tries to understand some of the human aspects of the scientist’s extraordinary adventure, and reflects in particular on Marconi’s relationship with his mother, Annie Jameson, and on his cultural and geographical background, Bologna’s province, which was the birthplace of the great radio telegraphy discovery. |
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The Scienza in Piazza Events
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March 12th-22th, 2009 The Scienza in Piazza events are a Marino Golinelli Foundation’s project whose goal is «involvement, dialogue and participation: watching, touching and loving science». The events, now reaching their 4th year, propose together with Bologna City Council a series of meetings and activities including the exhibition GUGLIELMO MARCONI RADIO COMMUNICATIONS PIONEER AND NOBEL PRIZE WINNER The exhibition describes in 13 panels the scientist life and the main steps of his career of discoveries and brings into life Marconi’s pioneering spirit of tireless researcher for which he became one of the key figures of the 20th century. The exhibition has been organized by the Marconi Foundation. |
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David Sarnoff |
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Marconi was the creator of the present day civilization of the radio. All of those who, with spirit of initiative and perseverance, have brought us to the present stage of development have built on the foundations laid by Marconi. Everyone considered him the tutelary genius of their work. |
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