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Guglielmo Marconi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1198 words) |
 | Marconi was born near to Bologna, Italy, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson and Sons Distillery on 25 April 1874. |
| Marconi was awarded the patent for Radio with British Patent GB12039, "Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and signals and in apparatus there-for" on 2 July 1897 (sometimes recognised as the World's first patent). |
| Marconi did develop a practical model and was responsible for the first successful exploitation of the invention practically at the same time with Alexander Popov, who described his findings in a paper published in 1895. |
| Biography of Guglielmo Marconi (1014 words) |
| Marconi was born in the Italian countryside in somewhat modest circumstances. |
| Marconi eventually found that if part of the transmitter were placed on the ground resistances were cut dramatically and the signal would travel much farther. |
| Marconi was convinced that the wireless could span the ocean and he set out to prove it. |
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