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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of Marconi wireless stations - Wikipedia

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    Marconi's radiotelegraph was to serve both as a means of establishing communications between the various Hawaiian Islands and as a means to receive messages from the Americas (notably California and Panama) for retransmission to Japan and Asia. [56] In the early days of wireless communications, Marconi used the Hawaiian Islands as a test run.

  4. Marconi Company - Wikipedia

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    The Marconi Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company founded by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 which was a pioneer of wireless long distance communication and mass media broadcasting, eventually becoming one of the UK's most successful manufacturing companies.

  5. Invention of radio - Wikipedia

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    The Marconi Company was renamed Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company in 1900. [citation needed] Marconi watching associates raise kite antenna at St. John's, December 1901 [119] In 1901, Marconi claimed to have received daytime transatlantic radio frequency signals at a wavelength of 366 metres (820 kHz).

  6. Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America - Wikipedia

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    The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America (commonly called American Marconi) was incorporated in 1899. It was established as a subsidiary of the British Marconi Company and held the U.S. and Cuban rights to Guglielmo Marconi's radio (then called "wireless telegraphy") patents. American Marconi initially primarily operated high-powered ...

  7. Wireless telegraphy - Wikipedia

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    The first practical radio transmitters and receivers invented in 1894–1895 by Guglielmo Marconi used radiotelegraphy. [5] It continued to be the only type of radio transmission during the first few decades of radio, called the "wireless telegraphy era" up until World War I , when the development of amplitude modulation (AM) radiotelephony ...

  8. 7 Famous People Who Almost Boarded the Titanic But Didn't - AOL

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    2. Guglielmo Marconi. The inventor of the radio was also supposed to be on the Titanic's maiden voyage after being given a free ticket.However, his stenographer got sick shortly before boarding ...

  9. Marconi and Marconi Wireless Station National Historic Sites

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    A model of Marconi's transmission towers at his first wireless station in Glace Bay. Marconi National Historic Site, located at Table Head in Glace Bay, is the site of Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station, callsign VAS, and the first wireless message sent from North America to Europe on December 15, 1902. [1]