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Marconi, Guglielmo

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  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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Marconi, Guglielmo, genius of, 5, 116; system of, 125; ship detector of, 134; predictions of, fulfilled, 136.

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MARCONI, Guglielmo, the man who made the inventors of telegraph poles and wires look foolish.

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