| LC control no. | n 50040633 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937 |
| Variant(s) | Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937 |
| Associated country | Italy |
| Associated place | Isle of Wight, England |
| Birth date | 1874-04-25 |
| Death date | 1937-07-20 |
| Place of birth | Bologna, Italy |
| Place of death | Rome, Italy |
| Field of activity | Wireless communication systems Telegraph, Wireless |
| Affiliation | Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Royal Needles Hotel (Isle of Wight, England) |
| Profession or occupation | Inventors |
| Found in | 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) |
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