Guglielmo Marconi
1874-1937
Italian inventor and entrepreneur who developed wireless telegraphy and related technologies.
After experimenting with electromagnetic waves in Italy, Marconi moved to Britain, where he patented his method for transmitting signals through space. In 1901 Marconi was the first to send a wireless signal across the Atlantic, from England to Newfoundland. One of the best-known inventors of his time, Marconi received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1909.
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