Guglielmo marconi biography summary organizer
Marconi was the living symbol of Radio communications and his extraordinary career lasted forty years, until death in Rome in!
Born in Italy in , Marconi lived in Great Britain for most of his life.
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, best known for his work on inventing the radio and wireless signal transmissions.
Marconi was born 25 April 1874 in Bologna. His father was an aristocratic landowner and a member of the Italian nobility; his mother was Irish/Scotish.
For a short while, he lived in Bedford, England, where he learned to speak fluent English.
The young Marconi was privately educated and though appeared bored with traditional education, he showed signs of real intellect and an interest in practical science.
He never received any formal qualifications. Aged 18, he befriended a physicist from the University of Bologna and received permission to attend lectures, even though he wasn’t formally a student. An important event was hearing about the experiments of Heinrich Hertz, which demonstrated the existence of invisible electromagnetic waves, which move through the air at the speed of light.
Marconi’s first radio transmitter
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