Marconi

[ mahr-koh-nee; Italian mahr-kaw-nee ]

noun

1. Gu·gliel·mo [goo-, lyel, -maw], Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.

Marconi

/ mɑːˈkəʊnɪ /

noun

1. MarconiGuglielmo18741937MItalianSCIENCE: physicist Guglielmo (ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo). 1874–1937, Italian physicist, who developed radiotelegraphy and succeeded in transmitting signals across the Atlantic (1901): Nobel prize for physics 1909

Marconi

/ mär-kō′nē /

1. Italian physicist and inventor who was the first to use radio waves to transmit signals in Morse code across the Atlantic Ocean (1901). Soon after his experiment, he developed shortwave radio equipment and helped establish radio as a widely used medium for communications.

Example Sentences

Marconi warns that this water will likely be so-called fossil water—drawn from aquifers confined underground for thousands of years that are not fed fast enough by today’s precipitation to be replenished.

From Time

All of this, Marconi says, will have an unknown impact on the little-studied geology and delicate ecosystem of the salt lakes.

From Time

He found her in the music-room, with several of the little Marconi missives spread out before her, and she cut him dead.

From Project Gutenberg

The house for the Marconi instruments was situated on the boat deck close to the bridge.

From Project Gutenberg

So far as can be ascertained, it was never heard of by anyone on board the Titanic outside the Marconi room.

From Project Gutenberg

It thus appears that the Marconi apparatus was at work until within a few minutes of the foundering of the Titanic.

From Project Gutenberg

The Californian heard none of the Titanic's messages; she had only one Marconi operator on board and he was asleep.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• transmission
• wireless