Cam spent more than 20 years writing his Marconi biography.

When asked how he became interested in Marconi, Cam Trowbridge replied,

"For some reason, my eye fell upon a short article, picturing Marconi experimenting 7/24 in the attic at Villa Grifone that his grandfather had used to raise silkworms. It captured my imagination. As I began to read more, it became apparent that no one had covered what is an extraordinary business story. Nor had any one laid out his scientific, personal and business stories, side by side, in proper chronological order, so that they could be understood as they affected each other." 

"Most of the early scientific geniuses such as Guglielmo Marconi are portrayed in textbooks as flat, one-dimensional residents of a bygone age. This compelling book by Calvin Trowbridge, a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, seeks to right that wrong, and does so with great scholarship and passion-but not to the detriment of bringing the long-gone, Nobel Prize winner Marconi (1874-1937) to life. Through its nearly 478 pages, and against the backdrop of the Victorian era, Trowbridge paints Marconi as a multi-dimensional being on a world stage that included such giants as Alexander Graham Bell, Heinrich Hertz and Nikolai Tesla. Not all of Marconi's contemporaries saw a future for wireless. Lord Kelvin, in fact, after hearing of one of Marconi's successful experiments, said, "Wireless was all very well, but I'd rather send a message by a boy on a pony." 

[Book review from TAP TIMES,  a Silicon Valley internet magazine.]

Calvin Durand Trowbridge, Jr., is a native of Chicago, Illinois where he practiced law as a corporate partner at the firm of Isham, Lincoln & Beale, following his graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University and Harvard Law School. He joined Norton Simon, Inc. in Fullerton, California and moved to New York with the company when it relocated its headquarters, eventually becoming Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Norton Simon, Inc., was an early international conglomerate whose companies included Max Factor and Canada Dry. Mr. Trowbridge later became the chief operating officer of New York Firms, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He presently is Managing Director of his own international legal search firm, which places lawyers with law firms in Milan, Paris, London, New York and Washington, D.C. He lives in Martinsburg, WV. He goes by the name "Cam". He has worked on the biography of Guglielmo Marconi for over twenty years.