Guglielmo Marconi

@Inventors, Career and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Guglielmo Marconi was the Nobel Prize winning Italian engineer who is credited with the invention of wireless telegraphy Italian Inventors & Discoverers Scientists Taurus Celebrities Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian engineer and inventor who successfully demonstrated the working of long-distance wireless telegraph and radio signal. This Nobel-prize winner was born into a wealthy and educated family, and was first educated in Bologna and Florence, later moving to a technical school in Leghorn. As a boy he was impressed by the works of Hertz, Maxwell and Lodge. He began experimenting in his father’s estate and was successful in sending wireless signals over short distances, greater than a mile. He took his machine to England where his invention was received with enthusiasm. One of the interested parties was British Post Office. Within a year, his successful endeavour of broadcasting to 12 miles, Marconi applied for his first patent. Determined to establish that wireless waves were not influenced by the curves of Earth, he transmitted his historic wireless signals across the Atlantic. The claims of his transatlantic signal were however never quite verified. Marconi continuously explored the various possibilities of the usage of radio waves beyond the spectrum of telecommunications. His experimentation resulted in discovering the use of microwave in physical therapy. Guglielmo, as an entrepreneur was quite conservative when it came to patents, as he never disclosed the full design until the patent was given to him, allowing him to realize the full monetary benefit

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Birthday: April 25, 1874 Died on: July 20, 1937 Nationality: Italian Famous: Inventors, Inventors & Discoverers, Scientists Spouses: Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali Siblings: Alfonso Marconi Childrens: Degna Marconi, Gioia Marconi Braga, Giulio Marconi, Lucia Marconi, Maria Eletra Elena Anna Marconi Information Detail Birthday April 25, 1874 Died on July 20, 1937 Nationality Italian Famous Inventors, Inventors & Discoverers, Scientists Spouses Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali Siblings Alfonso Marconi Childrens Degna Marconi, Gioia Marconi Braga, Giulio Marconi, Lucia Marconi, Maria Eletra Elena Anna Marconi Universities Bedford School Rugby School University of Florence University of Bologna University of Liverpool University of Cambridge University of Oxford University of Glasgow Founder / Co-Founder CMC Electronics Marconi Company Marconi Wireless Birth Place Bologna Religion Anglicanism, Catholicism Gender Male Father A Mother Annie Jameson Sun Sign Taurus Born in Bologna Famous as Inventor Died at Age 63

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In 1905, Marconi exchanged nuptial vows with Beatrice O’Brien. They had three children, a son named Giulio, and two daughters named as Degna and Gioia. Unsplash Personal Life

After Guglielmo and Beatrice separated in 1927, the former married Countess Bezzi-Scali of Rome. He had a daughter from the second marriage, Elettra, after which he named his favourite yacht. Unsplash Personal Life

On 20th July, 1937, the erudite inventor breathed his last after suffering from multiple heart attacks. Unsplash Personal Life

On April 25th, 1874, Marconi the second son of Giuseppe Marconi and Anne Jameson was born. His father was a wealthy Italian country gentleman and his mother, an Irish was the daughter of Daphne Castle and Andrew Jameson, a family of distillers. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He was privately tutored in Bologna, Florence and Leghorn. As a boy, Marconi was interested in electrical and physical science and studied works of masters like Maxwell, Hertz, and Lodge. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Later as a student in ‘Livorno Technical Institute’, he started experimenting on electromagnetics. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1895, incorporating the theories of Hertz, he was capable to develop a basic model of wireless telegraphy. This was largely done in his laboratory which he set up in his father’s estate for experiments. Unsplash Career

In 1896, Marconi took the machine to England and found some enthusiastic backers. One of them was William Preece, who was the Engineer-in-Chief in the British Post Office. Unsplash Career

Within a year, Marconi was successfully sending broadcasting up to 12 miles, and it was in the latter half of 1896, that Marconi was granted the patent for wireless telegraphy. Unsplash Career

In 1897, he started the ‘Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company’ which was renamed as ‘Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company’ three years later. Unsplash Career

The pioneering inventor sent signals across the English Channel, and established wireless communication between France and England, in 1899. A wireless station was started in South Foreland for communication with Wimereux in France. The same year, British battleships also exchanged messages in a distance of 75 miles. Unsplash Career

In 1895, this accomplished inventor first used wireless telegraphy to send signals over distances as long as one and a half miles. Throughout his career he worked on perfecting his technique and telegraph and radio remained highly useful means of communication before the arrival of more sophisticated means of conversation. Unsplash Major Works

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Birthday	April 25, 1874
Died on	July 20, 1937
Nationality	Italian
Famous	Inventors, Inventors & Discoverers, Scientists
Spouses	Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali
Siblings	Alfonso Marconi
Childrens	Degna Marconi, Gioia Marconi Braga, Giulio Marconi, Lucia Marconi, Maria Eletra Elena Anna Marconi
Universities	Bedford School Rugby School University of Florence University of Bologna University of Liverpool University of Cambridge University of Oxford University of Glasgow
Founder / Co-Founder	CMC Electronics Marconi Company Marconi Wireless
Birth Place	Bologna
Religion	Anglicanism, Catholicism
Gender	Male
Father	A
Mother	Annie Jameson
Sun Sign	Taurus
Born in	Bologna
Famous as	Inventor
Died at Age	63

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian

Apr 25, 1874

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