{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox engineer |image = |caption = |name = Edward Edwin Glanville |birth_date = 1873 |birth_place = [[Blackrock, Dublin]], [[Ireland]] |death_date = 21 August {{death date and age|1898|1873|df=y}} |death_place = Rathlin Island |education = [[Trinity College Dublin]] |spouse = |parents = |children = |discipline = |practice_name = |significant_design = |significant_advance = }}
'''Edward Edwin Glanville''' (1873 – 21 August 1898), was an Irish engineer who assisted [[Guglielmo Marconi]] in his experiments in wireless telegraphy.
==Early life== Edward Edwin Glanville was born in 1873, in [[Blackrock, Dublin|Blackrock]]. He entered [[Trinity College Dublin]] in 1891, studying mathematics and experimental science, graduating in 1895 with a first-class BA. Having been awarded a scholarship in 1895, Glanville undertook postgraduate work under Professor [[George Francis FitzGerald]], passing his examinations in 1898.<ref name="Ask">{{cite web |title=Glanville, Edward Edwin |url=http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/science-technology/irish-scientists/glanville-edward-edwin/ |website=www.askaboutireland.ie |access-date=14 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="Mollan">{{cite book |last1=Mollan |first1=Charles |title=It's Part of What We Are: Volume 1 |date=2007 |publisher=Royal Dublin Society |location=Dublin |isbn=9780860270553 |page=1407}}</ref>
==Career with Marconi== Glanville joined the company that was later known as the [[Marconi Company|Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co.]] in July 1897. He worked for a time in [[London]], before he was sent to conduct experiments on different types of aerials on the [[Salisbury Plain]]. Working with [[George Stephen Kemp|George Kemp]], Glanville conducted transmission tests between [[Bournemouth]] and [[Alum Bay]] on the Isle of Wight in January 1898. [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin|Lord Kelvin]] inspected the installation in June 1898, and at his insistence, paid a shilling to send a message of G. G. Stokes, making this the first wireless transmission of a paid [[telegram (telegraphy)|telegram]].<ref name="Ask" />
Marconi sent Glanville and Kemp to Ireland in July 1898, to set up a wireless telegraphy link between [[Rathlin Island]] and [[Ballycastle, County Antrim|Ballycastle]]. They sent the first test signals which were received on 6 July. That day, Marconi sent the pair to an annual regatta in [[Dún Laoghaire|Kingstown, County Dublin]]. Over the course of the two day event, the pair sent over 1700 reports of the yacht races to the shore, making this is first time wireless telegraphy was used at a sporting event. It also demonstrated the potential use of the system for communication at sea.<ref name="Ask" /><ref name="Antrim">{{cite web |title=MARCONI and BALLYCASTLE |url=https://antrimhistory.net/marconi-and-ballycastle/ |website=Glens Of Antrim Historical Society |access-date=14 December 2020 |date=22 August 2014}}</ref>
==Death on Rathlin Island== Glanville returned to Rathlin, and Kemp to Ballycastle, to resume the experiments there. Glanville fell from the cliffs on Rathlin Island while on a geology and bird-watching field trip and was declared missing on 21 August 1898.<ref name="Ask" /><ref name="CNI">{{cite web |title=Marconi and Rathlin |url=https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/1316/marconi-and-rathlin |website=Culture Northern Ireland |access-date=14 December 2020 |language=en |date=19 December 2005}}</ref><ref name="Larson">{{cite book |last1=Larson |first1=Erik |title=Thunderstruck |date=2006 |publisher=Crown Publishers |location=New York |isbn=9781409044765 |pages=123–124 |edition=1st}}</ref> His body was recovered on 22 August, and sent back to Dublin, where he was buried on 26 August. Marconi attended Glanville's funeral.<ref name="McGill">{{cite news |last1=McGill |first1=Bernie |title=Marconi, Rathlin Island and a new way with words |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/marconi-rathlin-island-and-a-new-way-with-words-1.3179337 |access-date=14 December 2020 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=10 August 2017 |language=en}}</ref>
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