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 ...

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.

NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with Princess Mary Elettra Elena Anna Marconi about the work of her father, inventor Guglielmo Marconi. Tomorrow marks 100 years since he sent the ...

Marconi’s wireless telegraph sent an SOS signal from the sinking Titanic. “Late in the nineteenth century, Guglielmo Marconi began experimenting with electromagnetic waves to send signals.

150 years ago, on Saturday 25th April 1874, Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, the man who would pioneer the science of radio communication and build a world-wide electronic empire, was born in ...

Towards the end of 1901, Guglielmo Marconi set out to conduct an ambitious experiment. At the time, it was believed that since electromagnetic waves (like light) travelled in straight lines, radio ...

The memorial to Guglielmo Marconi, who pioneered long-distance radio waves. It was dedicated in 1941 at 16th and Lamont streets NW. Above the bust of Marconi is a female figure representing ...

A few days after the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, a cheering crowd gathered in New York City to hail the man credited as the savior of the ship's survivors. That man, Guglielmo Marconi, was ...