Guglielmo Marconi [gue:lmo mar'ko:ni] (25 April 1874 - 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". eia.doe.gov
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Above - Marconi House in 1924 - Courtesy John A. Strubbe F.R.I.B.A. Click for more internal and external views. www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/MarconiHouseStrandAldwychLondon.htm
A hundred years ago this week, Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signals across the Atlantic - or so he claimed. education.guardian.co.uk/higher/physicalscience/story/0,9...