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02370aam a2200505 i 4500 001 6DA0376A9A7811E6B1324096DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161025010103 007 n 008 120821s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2012947610 020 $a 1770493786 020 $a 9781770493780 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Kulling, Monica. 245 10 $a Making contact! : $b Marconi goes wireless / $c Monica Kulling ; illustrated by Richard Rudnicki. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Tundra Books, $c [2013] 300 $a 1 volume (unpaged) : $b color illustrations ; $c 26 cm. 490 1 $a Great idea series 520 $a As a boy, Marconi loved science and invention. Born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy, to a wealthy family, Marconi grew up surrounded by books in his father's library. He was fascinated with radio waves and learned Morse code, the language of the telegraph. A retired telegraph operator taught him how to tap messages on the telegraph machine. At the age of twenty, Marconi realized that no one had invented a wireless telegraph. Determined to find a way to use radio waves to send wireless messages, Marconi found his calling. And, thanks to his persistence, on December 12, 1901, for the first time ever, a wireless signal traveled between two continents.. 520 $a 4 yrs+. 520 $a Historical, geographic and persons treatment. 520 $a The Arts (Visual, Performing, Music.) 520 $a Science. 520 $a Technology & Applied Sciences. 530 $a Issued also in an electronic format. 541 $d 20160329. 600 17 $a Marconi, Guglielmo, $d 1874-1937. 600 10 $a Marconi, Guglielmo, $d 1874-1937 $v Juvenile literature. 650 7 $a Inventors. 650 7 $a Radio. 650 7 $a Telegraph, Wireless $x Marconi system. 650 0 $a Radio $x History $v Juvenile literature. 650 $a Inventors $z Italy $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 $a Telegraph, Wireless $x History $x History $v Juvenile literature. 651 7 $a Italy. 655 7 $a History. 655 7 $a Biography. 655 7 $a Juvenile works. 700 $a Rudnicki, Richard,. 830 $a Great idea series. 941 $a 2 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210402012509.0 952 $l SBPB074 $d 20161025010351.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6DA0376A9A7811E6B1324096DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search