The "Italian Navy Coherer" Affair: A Turn-of-the-century Scandal
V.J. Phillips · Proceedings of the IEEE · 1998
The Italian Navy coherer was a receiving device used by Marconi in this first transatlantic transmission in 1901. A great controversy, which threatened to tarnish Marconi's reputation, arose concerning the invention of this coherer. The author re-examines the affair, and also includes some technical observations as to the coherer's precise mode of operation. >