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	Guglielmo Marconi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marconi was born near to Bologna, Italy, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson and Sons Distillery on 25 April 1874.
		Marconi was awarded the patent for Radio with British Patent GB12039, "Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and signals and in apparatus there-for" on 2 July 1897 (sometimes recognised as the World's first patent).
		Marconi did develop a practical model and was responsible for the first successful exploitation of the invention practically at the same time with Alexander Popov, who described his findings in a paper published in 1895.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi (1198 words)

	Biography of Guglielmo Marconi
		Marconi was born in the Italian countryside in somewhat modest circumstances.
		Marconi eventually found that if part of the transmitter were placed on the ground resistances were cut dramatically and the signal would travel much farther.
		Marconi was convinced that the wireless could span the ocean and he set out to prove it.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /sdperry/marconi.htm (1014 words)

	Marconi: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		Marconi constructed a transmitter at Poldhu, Cornwall, in the west of England and another at Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
		Marconi was interested in the commercial potential of wireless telegraphy, and the Newfoundland government encouraged him to construct a wireless station at Cape Spear, the easternmost point in Newfoundland and Labrador.
		Marconi knew of the monopoly, and to avoid Anglo-American blocking his experiment he deceived the press as to his real purpose in Newfoundland, claiming that he was experimentally communicating with ships at sea.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /society/marconi.html (1465 words)

	INVENTORS - Guglielmo Marconi
		Guglielmo Marconi was born on the morning of 25th of April 1874 at the Palazzo Marescalchi in the Italian city of Bologna.
		One summer Marconi went to a hotel in the Alps with his step brother Luigi and brother Alfonso and one night, with the cent and rustle of the pine trees just outside his window, the 20 year old youth lay awake unable to sleep.
		On Thursday the 12th of December 1901 Marconi succeeded in transmitting and receiving transatlantic signals and the morse letter "S" was received at Signal hill, St.Johns, New foundland from Poldhu, Cornwall using a kite aerial at Signal Hill.
	www.rockradio.freeserve.co.uk /marconi.htm (1258 words)

	Guglielmo Marconi: radio star (December 2001) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb
		Marconi's 1909 Nobel prize seems all the more extraordinary when you consider that - unlike the physicist he shared it with, Ferdinand Braun - Marconi was not, by his own admission, any kind of scientist, or even much of an inventor.
		Marconi, already shaping up as a businessman, knew that time was one thing he did not have, and the family network swung into action again.
		Marconi had been a member of the fascist party since 1923, but it was not until after he had married Cristina that he became really active.
	physicsweb.org /article/world/14/12/7 (3744 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Guglielmo Marconi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Guglielmo Marconi was born in Italy in 1874 to a rather wealthy Italian father and Irish mother.
		Radio transmission was pushed to greater and greater lengths, and by 1899, Marconi had sent a signal nine miles across the Bristol Channel and 31 miles across the English Channel to France.
		Marconi continued to refine and expand upon his inventions in the next few years, and then turned toward the business aspects of his work.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/btmarc.html (285 words)

	Fast-Autos.net - Marconi Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Marconi had a passion for children, especially at-risk children, and he believed that he could use his cars to help them.
		Marconi also owns two Ferrari Dino 246's, a Ferrari 330 GTC 2+2, and a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Spyder (one of fourteen made), but these four cars reside on the other side of the museum.
		Marconi drove the car only once on the street with the nitrous, and afterwards decided that it had too much power to be streetable.
	www.fast-autos.net /events/marconi/index.html (1207 words)

	Marconi Installation in Titanic
		Marconi employees were not directly responsible to any of the ship’s crew, having only certain responsibilities to the ship’s Master.
		Most of their time was spent within the Marconi suite, with the exception of meals, which were taken in the dining saloon reserved jointly for Marconi and Postal employees on C Deck.
		Footage of the interior of the Marconi Room to date has revealed only the electrical distribution box that was mounted on the forward wall, still hanging by the heavy wires that carried power from the ship’s lighting circuit to the Marconi switchboard.
	titanic.marconigraph.com /mgy_wireless.html (2773 words)

	Radio's First Message -- Fessenden and Marconi
		Marconi kept building larger antenna systems, larger since he was striving for greater transmission distance and improved signal reception, which lowered the operating frequency.
		Marconi, those working with him, and most experimenters in the new field of wireless communications at the turn of the century, were unanimous in their view that a spark was essential for wireless, and he actively pursued this technology from the beginning (in 1895) until about 1912.
		Marconi's ambition at the turn of the century to demonstrate long-distance wireless communication, and develop a profitable long-distance wireless telegraph service, led to his pragmatic proposal in 1900 to send a wireless signal across the Atlantic.
	www.ieee.ca /millennium/radio/radio_differences.html (7016 words)

	IEEE History Center - Legacies: Guglielmo Marconi
		Guglielmo Marconi was born on 25 April 1874 in Bologna, Italy, the son of an Italian merchant and a Scotch-Irish mother.
		The receiving antenna consisted of a 400-ft-long copper wire supported by a kite, and the detector was an Italian Navy coherer consisting of a globule of mercury between iron terminals and connected to a telephone receiver.
		In his 1922 paper, Marconi mentioned that they had noticed the effect of reflections of short-wave signals by large metallic objects located a considerable distance from their transmitter.
	www.ieee.org /organizations/history_center/legacies/marconi.html (638 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		His claim was met with some scepticism; Edison thought Marconi may have heard static instead of signals and the scientists, unaware of the ionosphere, thought the earth's curvature would preclude distant transmission of radio signals.
		Marconi attributed this to 'the varying capacity of the aerial wire' as the kite supporting it moved about in the wind.
		This works in Marconi's favour: it cannot be proved conclusively that the system did not have a parasitic response in the HF region.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~jcraig/marconi.html (718 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Profile: Marconi, the wireless pioneer
		Marconi's Atlantic experiment was the culmination of a scientific curiosity that began many years before in the attic of an Italian villa.
		When Marconi pressed a switch on the transmitter, it sent out electromagnetic waves that were detected by the receiver and the bell rang.
		Marconi continued to work and travel on his yacht until his death in Rome in 1937 of a heart attack.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1702037.stm (1129 words)

	Marconi, Guglielmo
		In 1894 Marconi began experimenting at his father's estate near Bologna, using comparatively crude apparatus: an induction coil for increasing voltages, with a spark discharger controlled by a Morse key at the sending end and a simple coherer (a device designed to detect radio waves) at the receiver.
		Marconi filed his first patent in England in June 1896 and, during that and the following year, gave a series of successful demonstrations, in some of which he used balloons and kites to obtain greater height for his aerials.
		In 1902 also, Marconi patented the magnetic detector in which the magnetization in a moving band of iron wires is changed by the arrival of a signal causing a click in the telephone receiver connected to it.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/375_18.html (1318 words)

	Columbia News ::: Marconi Foundation Honors Inventors of the Key to Internet Privacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Marconi award is the most prestigious in the field of telecommunications and information technology.
		The foundation was established in memory of Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless transmission that led to the development of radio, by his daughter Gioia Marconi Braga in 1974, 100 years after Marconi's birth.
		Since the death of Marconi's daughter in 1996, the chair of the Foundation has been Martin Meyerson, Emeritus President and University Professor of the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/00/10/marconi.html (776 words)

	Guglielmo Marconi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Marconi's achievement was to produce and detect the waves over long distances, laying the foundations for what today we know as radio.
		Marconi could soon detect signals over several kilometres and this led him to try and interest the Italian Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs.
		Broadcasting as we know it was still in the future - the BBC was established in 1922 - but Marconi had achieved his aim of turning Hertz's laboratory demonstration into a practical means of communication and established in Chelmsford the Company which still bears his name.
	marconiusa.org /marconi (286 words)

	Marconi - Marconi History
		Guglielmo Marconi was born on 25 April in Bologna, Italy, second son of a wealthy Italian landowner and an Irish mother.
		Marconi returned to the study of very short wavelengths and in 1932, Marconi personally supervised the installation of the first microwave telephone link which connected the Vatican City with the Pope's summer residence, Castel Gandolfo.
		Marconi had demonstrated the principles of blind navigation in the early 1930s and by 1935 Sir Robert Watson-Watt was beginning his experiments into radar off the Suffolk coast.
	www.seas.columbia.edu /marconi/history.html (1630 words)

	Guglielmo Marconi - Biography
		Guglielmo Marconi was born at Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian country gentleman, and Annie Jameson, daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in the County Wexford, Ireland.
		After further tests by his collaborators in England, an intensive series of trials was conducted in 1923 between experimental installations at the Poldhu Station and in Marconi's yacht "Elettra" cruising in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and this led to the establishment of the beam system for long distance communication.
		Marconi also received the freedom of the City of Rome (1903), and was created Chevalier of the Civil Order of Savoy in 1905.
	nobelprize.org /physics/laureates/1909/marconi-bio.html (839 words)

	Cape Cod National Seashore: Places: Marconi Station
		The Marconi site uplands are a landscape slowly recovering from European land-use practices, which stripped the landscape of topsoil, and then further from the effects of Camp Wellfleet, which added to the impoverishment of the vegetative cover during World War II.
		The Marconi operation at this location was initiated by the young inventor in 1901.
		Not long after, the Wellfleet Station was ready, and on January 18, 1903, Marconi staged another world's first (and a bit of a media event) by successfully transmitting messages between the president of the United States and the king of England.
	www.nps.gov /caco/places/marconistation.html (677 words)

	The Hammond Museum of Radio: The Marconi Inventions
		Marconi bought out the complete inventory of Peto and Radford English storage batteries from John Millen and Son in Montreal and had them shipped to Glace Bay.
		This Marconi 10 inch spark transmitter was built and used at the turn of the century and is identical to the transmitter used on the Titanic to send the first SOS.
		These Marconi radios where similar to those used aboard the Titanic on it's fateful Atlantic crossing and were recreated by the production company using Styrofoam for use in the the Titanic's Radio Room.
	www.hammondmuseumofradio.org /marconi.html (416 words)

	Marconi receives radio signal over Atlantic 1901 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the 19th century the telegraph was the quickest way to transmit messages across great distances, using Morse code.
		Marconi managed to send signals over several miles with no wires.
		On December 12, 1901, Marconi attempted to send the first radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean, despite predictions that the radio waves would be lost as the earth curved over the long distance.
	library.thinkquest.org /20230/innovations/marconi_invent.htm (294 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		In 1895 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi built the equipment and transmitted electrical signals through the air from one end of his house to the other, and then from the house to the garden.
		Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy.His father was Italian, his mother, Irish.
		He was sent as a delegate to the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919, in which capacity he signed the peace treaties with Austria and Bulgaria.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/97.html (210 words)

	Guglielmo Marconi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Marconi was educated at the Technical Institute of Livorno and attended the University of Bologna.
		Marconi improved Hertz's design by earthing the transmitter and receiver, and found that an insulated aerial enabled him to increase the distance of transmission.
		In 1898 Marconi successfully transmitted signals across the English Channel and in 1901 established communication with St. John's, Newfoundland, from Poldhu in Cornwall.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWmarconi.htm (311 words)

	PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning: Who Invented Radio?
		Marconi's revised applications over the next three years were repeatedly rejected because of the priority of Tesla and other inventors.
		He sued the Marconi Company for infringement in 1915, but was in no financial condition to litigate a case against a major corporation.
		The Marconi Company was suing the United States Government for use of its patents in World War I. The Court simply avoided the action by restoring the priority of Tesla's patent over Marconi.
	www.pbs.org /tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html (569 words)

	Marconi Media Ventures
		Marconi Media Ventures (“Marconi”) is a private media investment firm incorporated in 2003 to initiate the development of media projects that will ultimately delight audiences and provide profitable return on investment for our clients.
		It is the firm policy of Marconi to adhere to this code of business decorum, set at the highest levels of professionalism and ethics.
		Marconi also provides consultation to investment banks, private equity funds and representation of other types of media; including television, music and motion pictures.
	www.marconi.cc /business.html (300 words)

	EETimes.com - Organizations to mark centennial of Marconi's transmission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Grady told the IEEE audience that Marconi's ability to strike the right alliances with financiers, government officials and the media was as important as his research extensions to the work of Hertz and Lodge.
		Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874, the second son of wealthy landowner Giuseppe Marconi and whiskey distillery heir Annie Jameson.
		Marconi received a mix of government and private financing in Britain to establish coastal stations on the Isle of Wight and at Bournemouth in mid-1898.
	www.eetimes.com /story/OEG20011210S0055 (1296 words)

	Russia's Marconi: Alexander Stepanovitch Popov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Marconi did take the ideas and inventions of others and put them together in a workable form to allow people to send messages through the air, invisibly, on radio waves.
		But, at almost the same time Marconi was making his "discovery" in 1895, a Russian professor made the same discovery.
		The main difference was that Marconi was an enthusiastic entrepreneur who rushed to spread news of his discovery to the world and to sell it to them.
	www.webstationone.com /fecha/popov.htm (997 words)

	Marconi's Wellfleet (Cape Cod) Wireless - Stormfax®
		The aerial at Poldhu was held aloft by a canvas kite.
		Marconi convinced President Theodore Roosevelt to take part in a wireless experiment where a message would be sent from Cape Cod to the King of England.
		In 1974, an exhibit shelter was built to house a scale model of the wireless station and a bronze bust of Marconi, along with the commemorative plaque dedicated in 1953.
	www.stormfax.com /wireless.htm (1300 words)

	Italian American Links
		By September 1895, Guglielmo Marconi, a self-taught 21-year-old from Bologna, had already performed simple experiments which had convinced him that it was possible to send signals by using electro magnetic waves to connect a transmiltin, and a receiving antenna.
		At first, the distances were short; the one hundred meters between his house and the end of the garden; but it then became necessary to demonstrate that, by using the ether, transmission was also possible between two points separated by an obstacle.
		Marconi, (like every self-taught man) was more interested in practice than theory, and so he placed his transmitter near his house and the receiver three kilometres away, behind a hill.
	www.italian-american.com /marconi.htm (306 words)

	Wired News: Here's to Signore Marconi
		Communications Minister Maurizio Gasparri hailed Marconi as "an Italian myth and authentic global village hero." He said radio remained a symbol of liberty, as shown in Kabul when the first thing residents did after the fall of the hard-line Taliban government was turn on the radio.
		Marconi, whose father was a wealthy Italian landowner and mother from Ireland's Jameson whisky distillery family, was refused funding for his experiments by Italy, making many of his discoveries in England.
		Marconi died in Rome in 1937, one of the most celebrated men of his age, bestowed with honors at home and abroad.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,49050,00.html (725 words)

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