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

Loyd Sigmon was born in 1909, the year that Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun split a Nobel Prize for “their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 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

The first trans-Atlantic wireless signal was sent by Guglielmo Marconi from Poldhu in Cornwall in December 1901.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2023

The statue has been the subject of a long-running dispute between the city and the Friends of Marconi Plaza, where the likeness stands.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2022

On impulse, he resolved to send Millet a midsea greeting via the Olympic's powerful Marconi wireless.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Related Words

• transmission
• wireless