Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor and electrical engineer who pioneered research on long-distance radio transmission, was born in Bologna, Italy in 1874.
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer best known for developing the first practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. As a result, Marconi is widely regarded as the inventor of radio, and he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy." Marconi was also a businessman and entrepreneur who founded The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in the United Kingdom in 1897. (which became the Marconi Company). King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy ennobled Marconi as a Marchese (marquis) in 1929, and in 1931, he established Vatican Radio for Pope Pius XI.
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