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  2. History of radio - Wikipedia

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    British Post Office engineers inspect Guglielmo Marconi's wireless telegraphy (radio) equipment in 1897. In 1894, the young Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi began working on the idea of building long-distance a wireless transmission systems based on the use of Hertzian waves (radio waves), a line of inquiry that he noted other inventors did ...

  3. Magnetic detector - Wikipedia

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    Marconi's wireless magnetic detector (London) The magnetic detector or Marconi magnetic detector, sometimes called the "Maggie", was an early radio wave detector used in some of the first radio receivers to receive Morse code messages during the wireless telegraphy era around the turn of the 20th century.

  4. Spark-gap transmitter - Wikipedia

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    Italian radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi was one of the first people to believe that radio waves could be used for long distance communication, and singlehandedly developed the first practical radiotelegraphy transmitters and receivers, [28] [34] [24]: ch.1&2 mainly by combining and tinkering with the inventions of others. Starting at age 21 on ...

  5. Invention of radio - Wikipedia

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    Guglielmo Marconi. Guglielmo Marconi studied at the Leghorn Technical School, and acquainted himself with the published writings of Professor Augusto Righi of the University of Bologna. [97] In 1894, Sir William Preece delivered a paper to the Royal Institution in London on electric signalling without wires.

  6. Guglielmo Marconi - Wikipedia

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    Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi [11] [12] was born in Palazzo Marescalchi in Bologna on 25 April 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi (an Italian aristocratic landowner from Porretta Terme who lived in the countryside of Pontecchio) and his Irish wife Annie Jameson (daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, sister of Scottish naturalist James Sligo Jameson, and ...

  7. List of Marconi wireless stations - Wikipedia

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    Marconi's station at Poldhu, Cornwall, England, initially constructed in October 1900 on a cliff in a remote location to avoid publicity during initial experimentation, was the first large radio transmitter in the world. Marconi decided in 1899 to attempt transatlantic communication.

  8. List of oldest radio stations - Wikipedia

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    It is generally recognised that the first radio transmission was made from a temporary station set up by Guglielmo Marconi in 1895. This followed on from pioneering work in the field by a number of people including Alessandro Volta, André-Marie Ampère, Georg Ohm and James Clerk Maxwell. [1]

  9. Vatican Radio - Wikipedia

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    Vatican Radio (Italian: Radio Vaticana; Latin: Statio Radiophonica Vaticana) is the official broadcasting service of Vatican City. Established in 1931 by Guglielmo Marconi, today its programs are offered in 47 languages, and are sent out on short wave, DRM, medium wave, FM, satellite and the Internet.