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
Acknowledgements
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Copyright
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