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Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937

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Personal name headingMarconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937
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Variant(s)Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937
Associated countryItaly
Associated placeIsle of Wight, England
Birth date1874-04-25
Death date1937-07-20
Place of birthBologna, Italy
Place of deathRome, Italy
Field of activityWireless communication systems Telegraph, Wireless
AffiliationMarconi's Wireless Telegraph Company
Royal Needles Hotel (Isle of Wight, England)
Profession or occupationInventors
Found inHis 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)