Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi (Italian: Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, April 25, 1874 - July 20, 1937) was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is famous for his invention of a practical telegraph system based on radio waves, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Braun in 1909. Marconi's contribution laid the foundation for the development of radio, television and modern wireless communication systems, so he is known as the "Father of Radio" together with Nikola Tesla, Alexander Stepanovich Popov and others. Marconi used electromagnetic waves for communication experiments in the spring of 1895, but failed to request funding from the Italian government. In 1896, a 14.4-kilometer communication test was successfully conducted in the United Kingdom and a patent was obtained. Starting in 1897, he conducted a series of radio communication experiments and established the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company in London. On December 12, 1901, Marconi's research team received the first trans-Atlantic radio signal sent from Britain in Newfoundland. In 1924, he was granted the title of Marquis and became a noble.