Mayors George Brown and Paige Gebhardt Cognetti recreated the world’s first successful wireless telegraph conversation over ...

A lack of formal education, high-powered family connections and an unstoppable will to succeed helped Guglielmo Marconi to transmit the first radio signal across the Atlantic and launch the ...

It is December, and for any die-hard radio enthusiast that brings Guglielmo Marconi to mind. It was on Dec. 12, 1901 that Marconi claims to have received the first transatlantic Morse code ...

The University of Guglielmo Marconi will host a prestigious event tomorrow, October 29, 2024, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Guglielmo Marconi, one of the greatest pioneers of ...

Although inventor Guglielmo Marconi created short-distance wireless telegraph years earlier, on December 12, 1901 his team sent and received the first long-distance transatlantic radio/telegraph ...

Guglielmo Marconi was born in Italy in 1874 to a rather wealthy Italian father and Irish mother. He was educated privately and then went to the Livorno Technical Institute. While there, he read an ...

“I seemed to have a special… aptitude for mechanics, physics, and chemistry,” wrote the brilliant early 20th-century engineer, inventor, and founder of global communications Guglielmo Marconi, “which ...

Electric personality: Guglielmo Marconi caricatured by Spy (Sir Leslie Matthew Ward), 1905. (Courtesy: Sir L Ward, Vanity Fair 1905/Wellcome Trust) In July 1897 the young Italian entrepreneur ...

__Dec. 12: __Inventor Guglielmo Marconi amazes a London assemblage in 1896 with a demonstration of wireless communication across a room. Five years later to the date, Marconi sends the first signal ...

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