Contents. Italian inventor and engineer Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) developed, demonstrated and marketed the first successful long-distance wireless telegraph and in 1901 broadcast the first transatlantic radio signal.
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Guglielmo Marconi – the father of wireless communication and recipient of the 1909 #NobelPrize in Physics – died #OTD in 1937. In the late 1800s Marconi was able to use recently discovered radio waves to transmit signals across the English Channel, from Britain to France.
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