Manfredi Eustachio scientists in Bologna index Menghini Vincenzo

Guglielmo Marconi     (continued)

… and its inventor

In 1904, Ambrose Fleming, one of Marconi’s collaborators and inventor of the diode, developed a radiotelephone circuit between London and Birmingham. 
In 1926 Marconi’s company connected England with Canada using a short wave system, and the following year they connected England with Australia, a distance of more than 20,000 km.
Marconi devoted the last years of his life to experimenting with ultra high frequency waves, which were later used in television.  He and others can be considered the precursors of television, as well as radar.

  
Fig. 1: The logo of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd., established in 1900.

Fig. 2: The yacht Elettra, Marconi's floating laboratory.

During World War I Marconi worked as an officer of the radiotelegraph services.

In 1919 he bought a yacht from the Archduchess Maria Teresa of Austria, which he renamed Elettra after his daughter. He used it as a floating house, a research laboratory and receiver station for his experiments into radio wave propagation.

 


 

In 1904 Marconi was awarded an honorary degree in engineering from Bologna University and in 1909 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with F. Braun.  In 1914 he was nominated Senator of the Kingdom of Italy and in 1929 he received the title of Marquese and was appointed President of the new National Council for Research (CNR).

Marconi died in Rome in 1937.

In 1938 the "Guglielmo Marconi Foundation" was set up to promote and encourage studies and research in radiocommunications, and to promote initiatives which help preserve the memory and public awareness of the great scientist: http://www.fgm.it/ind_f_e.htm

Useful Link

  Guglielmo Marconi Foundation: Learn & Teach, Marconi

  Marconi Celebrations: "100 Years of Radio Web"

  Radio and Television Museum: L'invenzione di Marconi (in Italian)
 

Bibliography

  G. Dragoni, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ad vocem, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.

  G. Dragoni, S. Bergia, G. Gottardi (a cura di), Dizionario Biografico degli Scienzati e dei Tecnici, ad vocem, Zanichelli, Bologna, 1999.

 

  Celebrazioni Marconiane: "100 Anni di Radio"
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