African Nationhood

Chapter 345 Marconi

November 1896, Walvis Bay.

A young man with a big nose and high hairline squeezed out of the port along with the bustling crowd and slowly came to the port registration desk.

The receptionist at the registration desk was a Chinese. He smiled and asked in English: "Hello, sir, where are you from?"

The young man replied slowly in unskilled English: "Hello, I, I am Italian, my name is Guglielmo Marconi. I would like to visit Mr. Tesla."

Nikola Tesla became famous for his invention of the alternating current generator, and his invention of the alternating current transmission system. His reputation became even wider, and people often came to visit him in Southwest Africa.

The Chinese receptionist smiled and nodded, "Mr. Tesla is not here. He has his studio over there in Anhai Town. You may be able to see him there."

Marconi thanked the receptionist and left Walvis Bay.

Standing at the exit, he looked around and saw Chinese people everywhere.

There are probably too many Chinese here, and it’s hard to see a white person.

He immediately walked over quickly and said, "Hello, beautiful lady."

The white woman didn't feel scared or unhappy when she was stopped. She looked at Marconi and said, "Well, what do you want?"

Seeing that this white woman was very kind, Marconi smiled on his face.

"It's like this. I'm Italian. It's my first time here. I want to visit Mr. Tesla. The people at the port told me to go to Anhai Town. How do I get to Anhai Town?"

The white woman listened to his words and enthusiastically guided him to take the train at Walvis Bay Railway Station, and told him that he had to exchange his military stamps first before he could buy the train tickets here.

Marconi thanked the white woman, and then found a Southwest African Bank branch near the station to exchange his military tickets.

After exchanging 1000 yuan of military notes, Marconi felt a little excited holding these banknotes of different colors. He suddenly became rich.

At the train station, he learned that the fare here was 1 cent per kilometer and that it only cost 0.4 yuan in military coupons to reach Anhai Town. He felt that the cost of living here was really low.

After getting in the car, he felt very incongruous when he saw the Chinese and white people here living in harmony.

There was nothing to do in the car, so he took the military ticket in his hand to watch. From the military ticket, he finally got to know the leader of Nanhua Company.

……

An hour passed quickly. Marconi left the train station, and after asking someone to inquire, he found the Anhai Town Government.

"Hello, I would like to ask, how can I meet Mr. Tesla?"

The doorman of the town government could not understand English, so he went to the government and found a white man to receive Marconi.

Knowing that he came to see Mr. Tesla, the white civil servant asked him what he wanted to see Mr. Tesla for.

"Well, I am a graduate of the physics department, and I am very interested in the electromagnetic waves discovered by Mr. Hertz.

After thinking about it, I felt that electromagnetic waves should also serve as 'wires' for wireless communication, and I discovered the secret of electromagnetic wave communication.

Later, I went to London to apply for a patent and found that this technology had already been applied for by Mr. Tesla.

I came here to ask Mr. Tesla to authorize me to continue researching this technology. "

This Guglielmo Marconi was one of the inventors of the original space-time radio (the other was Popov of Russia, but he did not apply for a patent on this technology).

After passing Hertz's paper on electromagnetic waves two years ago, he came up with the idea of ​​using radio signals for communication. After experiments, he really succeeded.

In order to achieve greater development, he came to London with his discoveries.

And under the witness of the British, he performed twice in public, which was cheered and appreciated by the people.

He was filled with joy, thinking that he was going to be successful and make a fortune.

When he went to the London Patent Office to apply for a patent for "radio communications", he found that he was one step late.

This patent had been registered by Tesla in 1890, and the technology has never been updated since the registration.

He came here to ask Tesla to grant him authorization so that he could continue to conduct research on radio communication technology.

So he first went to the Tesla Research Institute in Birmingham, where he learned that Mr. Tesla was teaching at Nanhua Company on the African continent, so he took a boat to Southwest Africa.

At Walvis Bay Port, I was told to come to Anhai Town. When I arrived in Anhai Town, I found the Anhai Town Government.

……

After listening to Marconi's words, the white civil servants were a little undecided.

He asked Marconi to wait outside, and then the white civil servant returned to the office and called Tesla's studio.

Tesla Studio asked him to hang up the phone first and someone would contact him later to tell him what to do.

Sure enough, not long after, the white civil servant received a mysterious phone call.

The other party told him: Just send the visitor to the dam guard at the Arsenal in Anhai Town.

So the white civil servants took out their bicycles from the town government.

They took Marconi and rode towards the dam of the Arsenal in Anhai Town. Since the two sides were not far apart, it didn't take long for them to arrive. Under the guidance of white civil servants, Marconi crossed the dam and came to the guard here.

"Hello, I'm Italian..."

The guard nodded to him, "Please follow me."

Marconi was surprised to hear that the Chinese guards could speak English.

He followed the guards to the gate of Anhai Town, led Marconi's guards to give a military salute to the Chinese guards guarding the door, and then told them: "This is the person wanted by the military intelligence room."

After saying that, the guard who led the way left.

Marconi was stunned. He didn't understand what the two said just now. What should he do now?

He looked at the guard guarding the door and said, "Hello, just now..."

"Come with me."

Marconi was a little lucky that the other party wanted to lead him again. Many Chinese here knew English, which was great!

Once inside, I found that the situation here was very different.

From the outside, this place looks like a factory. Once inside, I realize that the environment here doesn't look like a factory at all.

It is clean and tidy inside, and you can see green plants and various flowers everywhere. Moreover, most of the people inside are wearing white work clothes, and everyone is in a hurry.

His arrival did not cause any unusual movement. After passing through numerous rooms and people, they arrived outside a room.

"go in!"

When he heard that the other party wanted to go in by himself, Marconi was not prepared and just pushed the door open and went in.

The room was very large and there were many people inside, all sitting in front of wooden boxes.

Those wooden boxes had a glass panel with numbers on it.

They all wore black earmuffs on their heads, and their hands were still turning the buttons in front of them.

Marconi was confused and very curious. What were they doing?

……

"Excuse me, is Mr. Tesla here? I'll come find him..."

"Come on, come over here."

Following the voice, I saw that the speaker was a young Chinese man. He was waving to me, and Marconi walked over.

"Please sit down. Do you want to ask Mr. Tesla for authorization to study radio communications?"

The other party knew that there was nothing wrong with his intentions. Marconi nodded calmly, "Yes."

"Radio communication technology has almost been researched here, and there is no need to do more research, so your request will not be met."

"The research is almost done, what do you mean?

I want to see Mr. Tesla, I want to ask him personally. "

The Chinese man opposite smiled and said, "Young man, I advise you not to be so persistent. It will not be good for you."

Marconi paid no heed to the warning, and the arrogance made him uncomfortable.

"I'm not afraid, I just want to pursue the truth!

I still insist on my request. I want to see Mr. Tesla and talk to him face to face. "

The Chinese opposite smiled and said, "Your persistence will cost you a lot, don't you regret it?"

Marconi showed no fear on his face and said calmly: "I'm not afraid!"

The young Chinese reached out and pulled out the plug on the wooden box next to him, and then a pleasant song came out:

If you miss the train I'm on

You will know that I am gone

……

"This is?"

"This is the latest development in our radio communications - the radio.

The signal we listened to came from Jinling City thousands of kilometers away, so you should understand now where our research has reached, right? "

After hearing what the Chinese said, Marconi's face was full of disbelief.

"Impossible, how is this possible? He actually developed such an advanced thing, so why didn't he apply for a patent?"

The corners of the young Chinese's mouth were slightly curved, as if he was enjoying the shock and confusion of the white youth.

"We naturally do this to keep it secret, so if you find out our secret, I'm sorry.

From now on you are a prisoner in our military intelligence room, Mr. Marconi. "

As soon as the young Chinese finished speaking, a pistol was pointed at the back of Marconi's head.

Another voice said coldly: "Stand up and follow me honestly, otherwise my gun will not have eyes!"

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