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Marconi, n.|mɑːˈkəʊnɪ|
[The name of the inventor, Guglielmo, Marchese Marconi (1874–1937), of a system of wireless telegraphy.]
1. Used attrib. in designations of this system, and things connected therewith.
1897Daily News 10 June 5/2 The new Marconi system of signalling... Marconi messages have been sent between Penarth and Brean Down. 1898R. Kerr Wireless Telegr. 97 [The box] contains a small Marconi receiver. Ibid. 104 The filings in the Marconi coherer.
2. transf. Used attrib. to designate a type of rig used on sailing vessels, or the various parts of such a rig (see quot. 1961).
1912Yachting Monthly XIII. 256/2 Istria, Mr. Allom's ‘Marconi’ boat, promptly installed herself as the yacht of the year. 1915Ibid. XIX. 151/1 Mr. Charles Nicholson, whose ‘Marconi’ topsail, first used on Istria in 1912, created such a sensation. 1916Rudder 421/1 In the coming races for the Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup, Nahma will use a Marconi rig. 1921Ibid. 28 [They] will carry 125 square feet of canvas in one sail on a so-called Marconi mast. 1940W. Martyr Wandering Years 14 That eighty-foot Marconi mast was held in place by a network of steel wire shrouds. 1956A. F. Loomis ‘Hotspur’ Story ii. 14, I expressed to Rigg my preference for a fast, marconi-rigged, windward-working cutter. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 142 Marconi rig, a sailing rig with a jib-headed mainsail set to a tall curved mast with an elaborate staying system; so named because it resembles a wireless mast. 1975Motor Boating & Sailing Jan. 136/1 This little cruiser has a very attractive appearance in either Marconi or gaff configuration.
Hence marˈconigram, a wireless telegram; marˈconigraph n., the apparatus used for transmitting these messages; also as v. trans. and intr., to send a message by marconigraphy (to); marˈconigraphing vbl. n.; marcoˈnigraphy, Marconi's system of radiotelegraphy; radio; Marˈconism, the theory or practice of Marconi's telegraphy. (All now disused.)
1902Daily Chron. 30 Jan. 6/4 When do you expect to start sending Marconigrams at commercial rates across the Atlantic? 1903Westm. Gaz. 7 Feb. 9/1 Installations of Marconism on the sea-coasts. Ibid., A monopoly of Marconism and cable-methods. 1903Daily Chron. 21 Mar. 5/2 A school for Marconigraph operators. 1903Nature 23 Apr. 583/1 The history of the series of inventions and discoveries which have culminated in Transatlantic Marconigraphy. 1907Daily Chron. 27 Sept. 5/2 The Lusitania was marconigraphed at 5.30 p.m. yesterday 200 miles west of Fastnet. 1909G. S. Porter Girl of Limberlost xxiv. 453 If..I want you..I'll cable, marconigraph, anything. 1911R. Brooke Let. Mar. (1968) 284 It is..cleverer and queerer than the telephone, though not so clever as Marconigraphing. |