Maskelyne-Marconi affair (nonfiction)

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.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against physical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

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