[WVDXA] Thunderstruck

[W8OI at aol.com]

Guys:
 
I just read and highly recommend a book about Marconi called  
"Thunderstruck," by Erik Larson.  It is all fact, every quote is real and  all events 
described are totally true, but it reads like a fascinating  novel.
 
This book tells the story of the wireless in detail.  But  interwoven with 
Marconi's experiments, his squabbles with scientists, his  peccadillo's etc., is 
another spellbinding story about a murder.  The  tie between the two stories 
is the fact that the wireless was used to catch the  murderer and his lover 
who were making their getaway across the Atlantic on  board a ship.  This is a 
work of history complete with considerable  notes and bibliography, but it is 
written so interestingly that it is just  as much fun as fiction.  I really 
recommend it.  It's pretty new,  copyrighted in late 2006.
 
And did one of you recommend it to me?  Someone did and I can't  remember who.
 
Garry, W8OI
 



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