marconism
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun (noun) The art of wireless telegraphy according to the Marconi system, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.
Examples
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It is only about three years or less ago that the 'Strand Magazine' gave worldwide currency to the fact that Marconi had discovered wireless telegraphy. More exact information on the subject soon showed that Marconi can scarcely be called the discoverer, but to his name no doubt will attack the bulk of the credit, so that it is surprising that we have not, by this time, been introduced to the word Marconism which would fairly stand beside galvanism, mesmerism, and the rest, and would certainly be an improvement on the clumsy circumlocution 'wireless telegraphy.'
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The following messages, which were transmitted by the ethergram system last evening between a swap in Sewell Street and an open drain in Stafford Street, were intercepted by the junior member of our staff, who, by the way, is an ardent student of Marconism.
Note
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy.
