Marconi, Guglielmo

1. An Italian inventor and electrical engineer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His most famous invention is the wireless telegraph, the forerunner of present-day radio, which he developed in the 1890s. In 1909, Marconi received the Nobel Prize for physics .

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Guglielmo Marconi is far more worthy to be remembered than the king who built the great Pyramid in Egypt.

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The young man at the table was Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian.

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Guglielmo Marconi, the wireless inventor, was the next witness.

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The first to demonstrate the practical operation of wireless telegraphy was Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian.

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