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Two diagrams compare structural support: In A, a weight hangs from the center of two upward-angled rigid members under tension; in B, the weight is suspended from two downward-angled rigid members under compression. Both show the angle theta at the support points.

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Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi at work in the wireless room of his yacht Electra, c. 1920.

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