the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Encyclopedias
Guglielmo Marconi
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or "GUGLIELMO MARCONI (1874-), Italian electrical engineer and inventor of the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy, was born at Bologna April 25 1874. He was educated at Leghorn and at Bologna University, and it was in the town of his birth that he made the first wireless tests. In England his earliest wireless messages were sent between Penarth and Westonsuper-Mare and on Salisbury Plain (1897). In 1899 he transmitted messages across the English Channel, and in 1902 from England to Canada and the United States. In 1904 he inaugurated the first ocean daily newspaper, the Cunard Daily Bulletin, on the R.M.S. " Campania." He was created hon. G.C.V.O. in 1914, was made an Italian senator, and was the recipient of many foreign decorations and honours.
These files are public domain.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Guglielmo Marconi'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/guglielmo-marconi.html. 1910.
