Also known as: Guglielmo Marconi, Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) was an Italian inventor and entrepreneur who turned Hertz’s laboratory waves into practical long-distance radiotelegraphy.1
Life and work
Building on others’ discoveries, Marconi engineered and commercialised wireless telegraphy, famously achieving transatlantic signalling in 1901 and founding companies that spread the technology worldwide.
Contribution
He demonstrated that radio could span oceans, launching the wireless communications industry.
Legacy
Marconi shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics and is widely regarded as a father of radio communication.1
Sources
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Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia, for biography and his pioneering of practical wireless telegraphy. ↩ ↩2