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On July 20, 1937, Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer (radio, Nobel Prize in Physics 1909), died of a heart attack at the age of 63.
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"Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (/mɑːrˈkoʊni/;[1] Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian[2][3][4][5] inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission[6] and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is credited as the inventor of radio,[7] and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".[8][9][10]
Marconi was also an entrepreneur, businessman, and founder of The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in the United Kingdom in 1897 (which became the Marconi Company). He succeeded in making an engineering and commercial success of radio by innovating and building on the work of previous experimenters and physicists.[11][12] In 1929, Marconi was ennobled as a Marchese (marquis) by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and, in 1931, he set up the Vatican Radio for Pope Pius XI."
From the article:
"Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (/mɑːrˈkoʊni/;[1] Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian[2][3][4][5] inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission[6] and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is credited as the inventor of radio,[7] and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".[8][9][10]
Marconi was also an entrepreneur, businessman, and founder of The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in the United Kingdom in 1897 (which became the Marconi Company). He succeeded in making an engineering and commercial success of radio by innovating and building on the work of previous experimenters and physicists.[11][12] In 1929, Marconi was ennobled as a Marchese (marquis) by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and, in 1931, he set up the Vatican Radio for Pope Pius XI."
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Here's the thing...most are under the mistaken assumption Marconi actually invented radio...in fact, nothing could be further from the truth, Dr.Mahlon Loomis, a dentist from upstate NY, actually did it first, along with another lesser known guy just after the Civil War, Congress granted him a patent, I've seen a copy of it, at the behest of a Congressional member who'd been amazed by it. The IEEE has had numerous articles on his research, and that of the other guy for years, he did it using kits as antennae, flying over the Allegheny Mou twins in Pennsylvania, using ground current to complete a circuit, half RF energy, half ground current. When he'd tap out Morse code, he'd watch a galvanometer needle dip or risez I forget which, indicating transmission, that he at he was able to send Morse quite comprehensibly, even though the idea was, obviously, woefully premature, he did it just after the Civil War ended, that I know for a fact. Now, what isn't terribly known was how he actually managed to work out the principles of RF propagation, and design of an antenna from first principles, there's been a good deal of effort devoted to trying to reconstruct exactly how he did it, unlike the Wright brothers with a steerable glider by warping wings, which they quite carefully documented, let me send this....
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Great share. How different our world would be without radio and wireless signals
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