Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937 (Personal Name)
- Earlier heading: Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937
His Recent advances in wireless telegraphy, 1907.
Marconi on the Isle of Wight, 2013 page 4 of cover (in 1897 Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi visited the Royal Needles Hotel, on the Isle of Wight to rent rooms to perform his experiments ; he used some of the working capital from his newly formed Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company to convert the hotel's billiard room ; for the next two and a half years the world's first permanent wireless station would be operated from the Isle of Wight)
Wikipedia, April 26, 2013 (born April 25, 1874, Palazzo Marescalchi, Bologna ; died July 20, 1937, Rome, Italy ; Italian inventor ; known for his pioneering work on long distance radio transmission ; and his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system ; shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics ; founder of The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in Britain in 1897 ; in 1924, he was ennobled as a Marchese)
