Marconi

American  

[mahr-koh-nee, mahr-kaw-nee] / mɑrˈkoʊ ni, mɑrˈkɔ ni /

noun

1. Guglielmo Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.

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Marconi British  

/ mɑːˈkəʊnɪ /

noun

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

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Marconi Scientific  

/ 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.

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Example Sentences

Over the next decade, Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian aristocrat, developed a practical system of wireless telegraphy using radio waves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

She’d often mix her mayo with Marconi hot giardiniera relish to make her own sauce, which sparked the light bulb moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

The Marconi room holds the ship’s radio - a Marconi wireless telegraph machine - which broadcast the Titanic’s increasingly frantic distress signals after the ocean liner hit an iceberg.

From Washington Times • Aug. 29, 2023

Within a year Marconi had signed-up the amateur up to his wireless company.

From BBC • May 21, 2023

The high-voltage transformers in the courtyard also were showing their age; Brobeck appraised them as “equipment Marconi would have recognized.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Related Words

• transmission
• wireless