form Marconi to the future of communications
Rome, Vittoriano
21st October 1995 - 11st February 1996
The exhibition takes place at the Vittoriano, the national monument dedicated
to the king Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome. This initiative wants to give the
visitor an opportunity of knowledge, information and reflection. Today
in the radio are merged new interests for discover it again and new interests
towards the tecnologies of the past; this last aspect is part of a general
new discovery of some traditional values of the culture and for the technolo
cal archeology. The radio that communicates and gives information, the radio
that rescues and helps, the radio that amuses and entertains, without never
asking conditions to the context of space and time: I think that all this
deserves all our attention. Through the radio, our respect, our admiration
and our interest for Marconi will last long in time and it will help us to
understand the dynamic, the greatness, but also the limits of a technological
development untied from the values of freedom, autonomy and humanity.
Luigi Campanella
Our exhibition dedicated to Marconi and to the One Hundred Years of Radio,
that our Gruppo Prospettive organized, represents a further moment of
confirmation and growth of its own philosophy of work. The opportunity to
make an exhibition that has been related to the communication and the
technology with incalculable consequences on the culture of our century,
and on the figure of Marconi, the inventor, scientist and entrepreneur
that such a revolution has started and followed in its first decades, has
offered to the Gruppo Prospettive the occasion to make a new initiative
able to entertain and then to better vulgarize contents of certain historic
and scientific importance.
The operation has been conducted worrying first to assure the quality
consistence and the scientific and informative exactness. Thanks to the
effort and the enthusiasm lavished, the exhibition represents a strict
and a well-balanced testimony, and then an open window on the work and
personality of Marconi.
Alessandro Nicosia
1895-1995: one hundred years in wich history of human kind has been
deeply marked by one invention, the Radio, that a very young Guglielmo
Marconi made near Bologna, his hometown.
Using the capital in writing the word radio has here the purpose of
underlining that with this word we want to show all the consequences,
direct and indirect, derived from when Marconi made his first experiments,
from radiotelegraphy to radiotelephony, from television to radar, from
radionavigation to the industrial and medical applications, from radio-
astronomy to the possibility to investigate the universe around us.
This exposition also tells in a visual way what has happened in these
"One Hundred Years of Radio" and helps remembering the overcame difficulties,
the victories obtained, the real moments of glory lived by the people that
of radio and its developments has been creators.
The exhibition has also the purpose to start a talk, that it could
be continued in the next years, which argument is the present situation
and the possible developments of a technical-scientific field that,
moving from radio, includes everything could be referred to the world of
electronics.
Gian Carlo Corazza
One hundred years of radio, one hundred years of transformations in communi
cation and social life, from the first signals of Marconi to the telecommu
nication of the present and the future: if the satellites and the space
sounding objects respond to the commands sent from Earth, if they send us
information and images not only of the Earth, but also of far celestial
bodies, it's possible thanks to the extraordinary invention of Guglielmo
Marconi. But if the radio would be just this, its one hundred anniversary
wouldn't be felt as something that concerns all of us: the fact is that
the ability of controlling radio waves has changed our everyday life,
our habits, our way of being informed and entertained. For realizing this
is sufficient imaging (but is it really possible ?) a world without radio.
I would like to express the greeting and the gratitude of the city of
Rome to the National Comitee for the Celebration of the One Hundred
Anniversary of the Radio, to the Marconi Foundation and to the MUSIS
(the Museum of Sciences and the Scientific Information in Rome) for
promoting the initiative; to the trustees, to the Gruppo Prospettive
and to the organizer and collaborator bodies for the carrying out
of the exhibition and the catalogue; to the Sopraintendenza ai Beni
Culturali, to the militar authorities, to the presidency of the
Institute for the Story of Italian Risorgimento and to the direction
of the Central Museum of Risorgimento, for partecipating, each one
respecting his own role, in the attainment of this important result.
Francesco Rutelli
Pictures from the exhibition catalogue:
MUSIS President, University of Rome "La sapienza"
President of Gruppo Prospettive
President of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation
Major of the city of Rome
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