Guglielmo Marconi was born in Italy in 1874 to a rather wealthy Italian father and Irish mother. He was educated privately and then went to the Livorno Technical Institute. While there, he read an ...

Saturday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of wireless communication: On Jan. 18, 1903, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi stood on a sandy bluff at Cape Cod and sent a greeting from President ...

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IT was on December 12th, 1901, that the first transatlantic wireless telegraph message was announced the forerunner of round the world wireless and of the marvelous radio of today. Guglielmo Marconi, ...

On a windswept piece of Newfoundland 100 years ago this week, Guglielmo Marconi, bundled up against the cold and straining to hear into his receiver, became the grandfather of the cell phone. Few ...

The triumphal progress of wireless telephony is evidenced in every daily paper. New devices, improved methods, record performances crowd the news, though but a twenty-four hours’ wonder. The master ...

FIFTY years ago, in 1897, Signor Guglielmo Marconi gave the first demonstration of wireless telegraphy which was recognized by the Postmaster-General as establishing a new means of communication. At ...

“I seemed to have a special… aptitude for mechanics, physics, and chemistry,” wrote the brilliant early 20th-century engineer, inventor, and founder of global communications Guglielmo Marconi, “which ...

Friday marks the 124th anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi broadcasting the first wireless signal across the Atlantic from Signal Hill. A local radio club commemorated the experiment that revolutionized ...

Electric personality: Guglielmo Marconi caricatured by Spy (Sir Leslie Matthew Ward), 1905. (Courtesy: Sir L Ward, Vanity Fair 1905/Wellcome Trust) In July 1897 the young Italian entrepreneur ...