I have been reading (finally) Carolyn Marvin's When Old Technologies Were New and she has a lovely section on how the British discounted Marconi over and over (insisting on calling him "Senor Marconi") until it couldn't be denied that he was responsible for the invention of the radio and then suddenly they started emphasizing that he had a British mother and wasn't really all that Italian afterall...
funny... Someone should tell Carolyn Marvin that actually Guglielmo Marconi's mom was Irish, not British - I am sure Irish appreciate the difference. Annie Jameson ...the daughter of the founder of the Whiskey Jameson: perhaps that helped too ! Monica ---------------------------- Prof. Monica Murero, PhD Director, E-Life International Institute, Professor in Methods and Analisys of Online Research Association of Internet Researchers (www.aoir.org) - Executive Board & Treasurer University of Florence - MICC, Center of Excellence for Media Integration and Communication Largo de Gasperi, 1 - 50136 Firenze (Italy) Tel. + 390 55 4237401 Fax + 390 55 4237400 or +390 550 5187 29 Website http://www.micc.unifi.it E-mail: monica.murero@unifi.it http://www.aoir.org/?q=node/133 http://www.captaindoc.com/interviews/interviews12.html
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