Facts about Guglielmo Marconi
- Guglielmo Marconi was the inventor of wireless telegraphy.
- The Titanic disaster in 1912 gave the wireless even more fame. Those who survived were rescued by ships that had received the wireless call of the sinking ship.
- Guglielmo Marconi was born on 25 April 1874, in Bologna, Italy, of an Italian father and an Irish mother.
- When Marconi was 16, he successfully proved his theory that an electric current can pass through most substances without difficulty.
- Guglielmo Marconi was only 20 years old when he had his great idea for sending signals with electrical waves.
- Marconi won the Nobel Prize for Physics (1909) and many other honors.
- As early as 1922, Marconi anticipated the development of radar. He found that radio waves were reflected from metal objects, and suggested that they could be used to detect the presence of ships in fog even if those ships did not have radio.
- Guglielmo Marconi invented tuning, which made it possible to have many different stations without their interfering with each other. The famous British Patent No. 7777 was granted for this tuning system.
- Marconi died on 20 July 1937 (aged 63)
