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“I have now constructed”: Slaby to Preece, June 27, 1897. IEE, SC Mss. 22/179.
“We are happy men”: Slaby to Preece, June 23, 1898. IEE, SC Mss. 22/180.
BRUCE MILLER
“I merely shook hands”: Trial, 22.
“I cannot say”: Miller Statement, 4. NA-DPP 1/13.
“When I first met her”: Ibid., 4.
“sometimes in the afternoons”: Ibid., 5.
“brown eyes”: Trial, 20.
Only partly true: Deghy and Waterhouse, Café Royal, 22.
“Anything we do”: Miller Statement, 5. NA-DPP 1/13.
“often enough to be sociable”: Trial, 20.
“with his Kodak”: Miller Statement, 5. NA-DPP 1/13.
“with love and kisses”: Trial, 37.
ENEMIES
“In fact Dr. Lodge”: The Electrician 39, no. 21 (September 17, 1897), 686–87.
“What we want to know”: The Electrician 39, no. 25 (October 15, 1897), 832.
“I hope this new attitude”: Marconi to Preece, September 9, 1897. IEE, NA 13/2/13.
“but no practical results”: Baker, Preece, 275.
“ignorant excitement”: Ibid., 279.
“I want to show you”: Preece to Lodge, November 18, 1899. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/86.
“Preece’s attempt”: Lodge to Thompson, January 21, 1900. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/104 ii.
the still-pervasive skepticism: One example: In a letter to Lodge, physicist Oliver Heaviside wrote, “I much question the usefulness of anything of Marconi’s kind in practice, save in exceptional circumstances. The heliograph will carry much farther by day, + a search light by night. No doubt a special field can be found for it. But wires are the thing, in general.” Heaviside to Lodge, June 23, 1897. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/50.
“Wireless is all very well”: Marconi, My Father, 45.
“The chief objection”: Kelvin to Lodge, May 5, 1898. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/107.
“I think it would be”: Kelvin to Lodge, June 11, 1898. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/107.
“In accepting”: Kelvin to Lodge, June 12, 1898. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/107.
“Today was only the beginning”: Muirhead to Lodge, June 4, 1898. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/77.
“This struck me”: Jameson Davis to Lodge, July 29, 1898. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/70.
ROYAL YACHT OSBORNE: Marconi to Lodge, August 2, 1898. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/70.
Anyone who could read: Marconi, My Father, 65–67; Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 41–42.
“go back and around”: Marconi, My Father, 66; Wander, “Radio’s First Home,” 52.
“Alas, Your Majesty”: Ibid., 66.
“H. R. H. the Prince”: Ibid., 67.
“Could you come”: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 42.
“I am glad to say”: Marconi to Lodge, August 2, 1898. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/70.
“a lady’s house”: Kemp Diary, August 24, 1898.
“I wired to London”: Ibid., August 22, 1898.
“I sincerely hope”: Marconi to Lodge, November 2, 1898. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/70.
“I much regret”: Marconi to Lodge, October 11, 1898. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/70.
At nine A.M.: Kemp’s account of the ordeal appears in his diary entries for December 17, 1898, through January 4, 1899. Kemp Diary.
In April: Baker, History, 42; Faulkner, Watchers, 6–7.
One night, during: Marconi, My Father, 71–72; Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 20.
“WERE YOU HER LOVER, SIR?”
“Were you writing to her”: This exchange appears in Trial, 20–21.
FLEMING
“Glad to send”: Marconi to Fleming, March 28, 1899. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/66.
“the region of uncertain”: Hong, Wireless, 56–57.
“My attention has been”: Lodge to Fleming, April 11, 1899. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/66
an “indictment against”: Hong, Wireless, 57.
“I made no attack”: Fleming to Lodge, April 14, 1899. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/66.
define “my position”: Fleming to Jameson Davis, May 2, 1899. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/47.
“I have a strong conviction”: Ibid.
THE LADIES’ GUILD COMMENCES
“It was always agreed”: Trial, 89.
“with a free hand”: Ibid., 97.
One evening Miller: Miller Statement, 2. NA-DPP 1/13.
“I never interfered”: Trial, 37.
“Of course, I hoped”: Ibid., 89.
“She got an engagement”: Ibid., 36.
“She would probably”: Ibid., 36.
“There was hardly”: Macqueen-Pope, Goodbye Piccadilly, 300–1.
“When her hair was down”: Trial, 77.