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Guglielmo Marconi

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Guglielmo Marconi

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Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi, was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to his being largely credited as the inventor of radio and sharing the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy."

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Notable quotes

“This new form of communication could have some utility.”
— Marconi, 1899: cited in: Simon Saunders, ‎Alejandro Aragón-Zavala (2007) Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication. p. 361
“Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?”
— Marconi, 1934: cited in Raboy, Marc (2016) The Man Who Networked the World, p. 631

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