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.. , .\~ ~. ~.' ..~-:- ~'.' l~ '.• , .' .,~ ',t· ~'~ :...~ J'\~' ~. ."'''.~ ,"::'. ,,\.... A SECRET UNDERGROUND CITY OF THE ANDES? A high-tech, secret city has been said to exist in a remote jungle crater in South America. If so, who might the scientists be who run this James Bond-type super fortress? The story begins with the great Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi (1874 193'1), a former student of Nikola Tesla. Marconi studied radio transmission theo ry with Tesla and made his first radio transmission in 1895. Marconi and Tesla are both accredited for the invention of the radio. Marconi's historical radio transmission utilised a Heinrich Hertz spark arrester, a Popov antenna and an EdolIard Bramely coherer for his simple device that was to go on to become the modem radio. Marconi was a mysterious man in his later years, and was known to perform experiments, including anti-gravity exper~ iments, aboard his yacht Electra. Marconi's yacht was a floating super-lab oratory, from which he sent signals into space and lit lights in Australia in 1930. He did this with the aid of an Italian physicist named Landini by sending wave . train signals through t.be earth, much as Nikola Tesla had done in Colorado Springs. In June of 1936 Marconi demon strated to Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini a wave gun device that could be used as a defensive weapon. In the 1930s such devices were popularised as 'death rays' as in a s ~ -LL.. Boris Karloff film of the same name. Marconi demonstrated the rayon a busy highway north of Milan one afternoon. Mussolini had asked his wife Rachele to also be on the highway at precisely 3.30 in the afternoon. Marconi's device caused the electrical systems in all the cars, including Rachele's, to malfunction. The car motors would not function for half an hour, while her chauffeur and o.ther motorists checked their fuel pumps and spark plugs. At 3.35 aU the cars were able to start again. Rachele Mussolini later published this account in her autobi ography. Mussohni was quite pleased with Marconi's invention however it is .said that Pope Pius XI learned about the invention of the para~ysing rays and took steps to have Mussolini stop Marconi's research. According to Marconi's follow ers, Marconi then took his yacht to South Ameri'ca in 1937, after faking his own death. A number of European scientists Were said to have gone with Marconi, iPclud ing Landini. In 1937, the enigmatic Italian physicist and alchemist Fulcanelli wamed European physicists of the grave dangers of atomic weapons, and then mysteriously vanished a few years later. He is believed to have joined Marconi's secret group in Soutl1 America. Ninety-eight scientists were said to have gone to South America where they 52-NEXUS Vol 2, No U -1993 s~