Biography
of Guglielmo Marconi
Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937). He was
the originator of wireless telegraph signals and created means of overcoming
many of the hurdles to the commercialization of wireless. He was the first to
transmit signals across the ocean without use of cables. Marconi was born in
the Italian countryside in somewhat modest circumstances. He had little formal
education, though his mother tutored him, and he loved to read from his fathers
library about experiments with...