Marconi in East Kent

The British Association tended to favor a narrative of scientific research as a
collectivist, international, gentlemanly-amateur pursuit, largely confined to
the laboratory.
Marconi, by contrast, explained the development of wireless telegraphy as the
achievement of his own genius.
Appealing not only to the established scientific elite but to a range of nontraditional
audiences, and stressing the possibilities or ‘imagined uses’ of his
technology even more so than his actual results, he succeeded in commanding
unprecedented influence.
One last connection with East Kent sees Marconi elected as a member of The
Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club in Dover on 30 th January 1925, his yacht, Elettra,
a schooner of 633 Gross Tonnes, recorded as being in Dover harbour May 12 th
1925 “preparatory to going across to Calais (on May 15 th ) to carry out some
important experiments”.
Marconi remained a member of the Yacht Club for the rest of his life.
In 1909, Marconi shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun a
founder of Telefunken for their "contributions to the development of wireless
telegraphy" (radio communications).
Marconi died in Rome July 20 th 1937, aged 63.
COLONEL H JAMESON-DAVIS died at the age of 82 on 25 th December,1936, at
his home, "Estrella,"in Woking, Surrey, after two months' illness.
To return to the 1899 McClures Magazine article
A Marconi company spokesman:
don't you see the vast usefulness in warfare of control over certain craft? Think a
moment."
He smiled mysteriously while I thought.
"You mean torpedo craft?"
"Exactly. The warfare of the future, will have startling things in it; perhaps the
steering of torpedo craft from a distance will be counted in the number. But we
may leave the details to those who will work them out."
And here, I think, we may leave this whole fascinating subject, in the hope that