Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor mb-code 1649668 Original is oil on canvas

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Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor mb-code 1649668 Original is oil on canvasGuglielmo Marconi (1874 1937), Italian physicist and inventor, 1926. Marconi discovered a way in which waves could be used to send messages from one place to another without wires or cables. Having read about Heinrich Hertz's work with electromagnetic waves, he began experiments of his own, and in 1894 successfully sounded a buzzer 9 metres away from where he stood. In 1902 Marconi sent a radio signal across the Atlantic in Morse code. Five years