1896 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 15 Dec. 4 The great difference between the system which had already been tried and the Marconi system is that in the former a wire on each side was necessary.

1897 Daily News 10 June 5/2 Marconi messages have been sent between Penarth and Brean Down.

1898 R. Kerr Wireless Telegr. 97 [The box] contains a small Marconi receiver.

1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 Oct. 2/5 Maybe, though, that ‘the little cherub who sits aloft, keeping watch o'er the life of poor Jack’ will see fit to perch on the Marconi rod and ward off any electrical cross-current that may be in the air.

1920 Discovery May 131/2 The Marconi direction-finder not only receives wireless signals; it also indicates the direction of the sending station.

1941 A. Withington Mine Eyes have Seen 175 I was called down..to the lighthouse at L'Anse Amour, which served the double purpose of beacon and wireless station. From it the Marconi messages went out to the North.

1946 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. Oct. 750/1 The first radio aid to approach and landing, consisting of a Marconi very high frequency track beacon or ‘localiser’ with associated marker beacons, was installed at Heston aerodrome in 1935.

2000 Sphaera No. 11. 3/5 Most visitors will have been drawn mainly to the more lively exhibits, such as a set of Marconi apparatus sending messages from one end of the building to the other.

1912 Yachting Monthly July 256/2 Istria, Mr. Allom's ‘Marconi’ boat, promptly installed herself as the yacht of the year.

1915 Yachting Monthly July 151/1 Mr. Charles Nicholson, whose ‘Marconi’ topsail, first used on Istria in 1912, created such a sensation.

1916 Rudder 421/1 In the coming races for the Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup, Nahma will use a Marconi rig.

1921 Rudder 28 [They] will carry 125 square feet of canvas in one sail on a so-called Marconi mast.

1940 W. Martyr Wandering Years 14 That eighty-foot Marconi mast was held in place by a network of steel wire shrouds.

1956 A. F. Loomis ‘Hotspur’ Story ii. 14 I expressed to Rigg my preference for a fast, marconi-rigged, windward-working cutter.

1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 142 Marconi rig, a sailing rig with a jib-headed mainsail set to a tall curved mast with an elaborate staying system; so named because it resembles a wireless mast.

1975 Motor Boating & Sailing Jan. 136/1 This little cruiser has a very attractive appearance in either Marconi or gaff configuration.

1989 Wooden Boat Dec. 67/3 The learning curve with a gaff rig is much more complex than with marconi.

1908 Isle of Man Weekly Times 12 Sept. 9/4 An author sometimes dreams of the ideal actress who shall ‘Marconi’ across the footlights the puppet he has given birth to.

1922 Glasgow Herald 2 Nov. 6/2 These figures represent a code which can be wired, cabled, or marconied anywhere.

1926 P. Bottome Old Wine xi. 104 Marconiing the news..across space.