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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. Marconi Wireless Station Site (South Wellfleet, Massachusetts)

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    At this location, now part of the Cape Cod National Seashore (though no admission is charged if not visiting Marconi Beach), inventor Guglielmo Marconi erected a large antenna array on four 210-foot (64 m) wooden towers, and established a transmitting station powered by kerosene engines that produced the 25,000 volts of electricity needed to ...

  4. Invention of radio - Wikipedia

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    Before the discovery of electromagnetic waves and the development of radio communication, there were many wireless telegraph systems proposed and tested. [4] In April 1872 William Henry Ward received U.S. patent 126,356 for a wireless telegraphy system where he theorized that convection currents in the atmosphere could carry signals like a telegraph wire. [5]

  5. Timeline of radio - Wikipedia

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    Although development of the first radio wave communication system is attributed to Guglielmo Marconi, his was just the practical application of 80 years of scientific advancement in the field including the predictions of Michael Faraday, the theoretical work of James Clerk Maxwell, and the experimental demonstrations of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. [1]

  6. 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]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun invented cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO). 1901: First transatlantic radio transmission by Guglielmo Marconi 1901: American engineer Peter Cooper Hewitt invented the Fluorescent lamp. 1904: English engineer John Ambrose Fleming invented the diode. 1906: American inventor Lee de Forest invented the triode. 1908

  9. Coherer - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] The Scottish electrical engineer and astronomer George Forbes suggested that Branly's filings tube might be reacting in the presence of Hertzian waves, a type of air-borne electromagnetic radiation proven to exist by German physicist Heinrich Hertz (later called radio waves). Marconi's 1896 coherer receiver, at the Oxford Museum of the ...