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The '''Maskelyne-Marconi affair''' | The '''Maskelyne-Marconi affair''' was an event on June 4, 1903 involving [[Nevil Maskelyne (magician) (nonfiction)|Nevil Maskelyne]], [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]], and [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]]. | ||
Maskelyne, who was Marconi's business adversary, ruined Fleming's public demonstration of Marconi's new syntonic radio system by sending derogatory messages, hurt Fleming's credibility. | Maskelyne, who was Marconi's business adversary, ruined Fleming's public demonstration of Marconi's new syntonic radio system by sending derogatory messages, hurt Fleming's credibility. | ||
This was an early example of security hacking. | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
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External links: | External links: | ||
* [https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440-700-dot-dash-diss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz/ Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz] - "A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph" @ NewScientist.com | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Maskelyne_(magician) Nevil Maskelyne (magician)] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Maskelyne_(magician) Nevil Maskelyne (magician)] @ Wikipedia | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi Guglielmo Marconi] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi Guglielmo Marconi] @ Wikipedia | ||
Latest revision as of 05:50, 11 December 2018
The Maskelyne-Marconi affair was an event on June 4, 1903 involving Nevil Maskelyne, Guglielmo Marconi, and John Ambrose Fleming.
Maskelyne, who was Marconi's business adversary, ruined Fleming's public demonstration of Marconi's new syntonic radio system by sending derogatory messages, hurt Fleming's credibility.
This was an early example of security hacking.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Nevil Maskelyne (magician) (nonfiction)
- Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)
- John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)
External links:
- Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz - "A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph" @ NewScientist.com
- Nevil Maskelyne (magician) @ Wikipedia
- Guglielmo Marconi @ Wikipedia
- John Ambrose Fleming @ Wikipedia
- Inventing the History of on Invention: J. A. Fleming's Route to the Valve by Sungook Hong