Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi, GCVO (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, known for the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system commonly known as the "radio". Marconi was President of the Accademia d'Italia and a member of the Fascist Grand Council of Italy.

External links and resources

• Guglielmo Marconi documentary narrated by Walter Cronkite
• Nobel : Guglielmo Marconi – Biography
• Marconi Corporation's Marconi Calling
• Guglielmo Marconi

Radio

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• Who started the electronic era?
• PBS : Marconi and Tesla: Who invented radio?
• The Guglielmo Marconi Case Who is the True Inventor of Radio
• U.S. Supreme Court, "Marconi Wireless Telegraph co. of America v. United States". 320 U.S. 1. Nos. 369, 373. Argued April 9-12, 1943. Decided June 21, 1943.
• 21st Century Books : Priority in the Invention of Radio — Tesla vs. Marconi
• BBC Reference to his first transmission over water http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/historyhunters/locations/pages/3_1_flatholm.shtml
• Faking the Waves..1901 http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/physicalscience/story/0,9836,616927,00.html