Physics

Banquet speech

Guglielmo Marconi’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1909 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen I thank Mr. Hildebrand for the very kind but too flattering remarks that he has made of myself and of my work in Wireless Telegraphy. I believe that one perhaps of the least thought of…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 14, 1908 Colour Photography The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. Edmond Becquerel, as is known, gave a first solution though only an imperfect one. Becquerel showed that the colours of the image of the dark room print on a layer of…

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