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Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"...

Timeline of Events

1896

6.2.1896

Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.

1897

7.2.1897

Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.

1901

12.12.1901

Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

1907

10.17.1907

Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.