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Guglielmo Marconi

Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)

8 dated entries naming Guglielmo Marconi, drawn from 6 separate years between 1874 CE and 1937 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1874April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)source
  • 1899January 26 – German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun, who will later share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi, receives a British patent for his wireless radio invention "Telegraphy without directly connected wire".source
  • 1899March 27 – Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmits a radio signal across the English Channel.source
  • 1899March 3 – Guglielmo Marconi conducts radio beacon experiments on Salisbury Plain and notices that radio waves are being reflected back to the transmitter by objects they encounter, one of the early steps in the development of radar.source

20th century

  • 1901December 12 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu, England, to St. John's, Newfoundland; it is the letter "S" in Morse code.source
  • 1902December 21 – Newfoundland - Guglielmo Marconi sends wireless messages across the Atlantic.source
  • 1907October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.source
  • 1937July 20 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian-born American inventor (b. 1874)source

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