Guglielmo Marconi

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Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937)

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" Guglielmo Marconi

Brian Regal, Radio: The Life Story of a Technology, page 23 The project ran into many problems including Guglielmo Marconi starting regular transatlantic transmission in 1903 with far less expensive equipment. Source: Internet

Guglielmo Marconi used Braun's patents (among others). Source: Internet

History Development Radio Amateurs carried out the first short wave transmissions over a long distance before Guglielmo Marconi Early radio telegraphy had used long wave transmissions. Source: Internet

In 1895, Guglielmo Marconi began work on a way to adapt the known methods of transmitting and detecting these "Hertzian waves" into a purpose built commercial wireless telegraphic system. Source: Internet

In 1900 Guglielmo Marconi stayed the Housel Bay Hotel in his quest to locate a coastal radio station to receive signals from ships equipped with his apparatus. Source: Internet

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