Guglielmo Marconi
1874 – 1937 Italian inventor, entrepreneur
Italian inventor and businessman who built the first practical wireless telegraph and sent signals across the Atlantic.
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Affiliations
- Marconi Company
Guglielmo Marconi developed a working system of wireless telegraphy, sending messages by radio waves rather than along wires, and built a company to sell it. In 1901 he reported receiving a transatlantic signal from Cornwall to Newfoundland, a landmark for long-distance radio. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909. His work opened the path to broadcast radio, though the underlying science drew on many other inventors. In his later years he supported Italy's Fascist government.
Connections
- rival of Nikola Tesla — Disputed priority over radio patents, later partly settled in Tesla's favour.
In the timeline
- 1895 Radio the inventor of practical wireless telegraphy
- 1897 Founding of Marconi's wireless company mentioned
- 1901 Marconi transmits first transatlantic radio signal inventor