Radio History project

  • G.Marconi

    G.Marconi
    G.Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy
  • The first radio invented

    The first radio invented
    Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor sent and received
  • First stages

    n 1895 he began laboratory experiments at his father's country estate at Pontecchio where he succeeded in sending wireless signals over a distance of one and a half miles.
  • Wireless Signal

    Wireless Signal
    G.Marconi, flashed the first wireless signal across the English channel.
  • Telegraph company

    Marconi founded the London-based Marconi Telegraph Company in 1899. Though his original transmission traveled a mere mile and a half, on December 12, 1901
  • American Liner

    In 1902, during a voyage in the American liner "Philadelphia", he first demonstrated "daylight effect" relative to wireless communication
  • Commissioner

    In 1914 he was commissioned in the Italian Army as a Lieutenant being later promoted to Captain, and in 1916 transferred to the Navy in the rank of Commander.
  • The Beam system

    By 1926, Marconi's "beam system" had been adopted by the British government as a design for international communication.
  • READY, SET, BEGIN

    In 1931 Marconi began research into the propagation characteristics of still shorter waves, resulting in the opening in 1932 of the world's first microwave radiotelephone link between the Vatican City and the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.
  • G.Marconi Dies at age 63

    G.Marconi Dies at age 63
    Cause of death: Heart attack
  • He continued.

    Marconi continued to experiment with radio technology in his native Italy until his death, on July 20, 1937, in Rome, from heart failure.
  • 1943....

    In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some of his patents’ source of discovery was questionable and as a result restored some prior patents to other scientists