Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi was born on the 25th of April, 1874. His legacy lives on in many ways, but perhaps most crucial were is innovations in the field of physics, specifically regarding his proofs on radio waves.
These theories that he produced were the result of his devices that could transmit signals via radio waves. In 1895, at the age of only 21, he produced the first working radio in the world, capable of sending Morse code messages wirelessly over distances greater than a kilometer. He continued to improve and test his device, along the way obtaining the first patent for the radio a few years after his early prototype.
His innovations in radio technology rapidly progressed. He managed to set up wireless infrastructure in France and England, allowing wireless communication across the channel and in 1901 he set up the first transatlantic wireless network, allowing for messages to be passed over a distance of 3360 kilometers.
He proved that radio waves do not follow the curvature of the earth, using the transatlantic system. In the late twenties and early thirties he helped to create one of the first radio telephones, between the Pope's summer residence and the Vatican. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. His inventions, much like Bell's, changed the way we communicate with each other, except his was on a global scale. Interestingly, like many great innovators and leaders of the 19th century he was never formally educated.
"In sketching the history of my association with radiotelegraphy, I might mention that I never studied physics or electrotechnics in the regular manner, although as a boy I was deeply interested in those subjects." (Fourth Paragraph) -Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1909
Yet his system connected the world and set the stage for global networking and communication. Today we can place a call to anywhere in the world wirelessly, thanks to the groundwork of Guglielmo Marconi.
"If it should become possible to transmit waves right round the world, it may be found that the electrical energy travelling round all parts of the globe may be made to concentrate at the antipodes of the sending station. In this way it may some day be possible for messages to be sent to such distant lands by means of a very small amount of electrical energy, and therefore at a correspondingly small expense." (Penultimate Paragraph) -Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1909
He died on July 20th, 1937 in Rome, Italy.
These theories that he produced were the result of his devices that could transmit signals via radio waves. In 1895, at the age of only 21, he produced the first working radio in the world, capable of sending Morse code messages wirelessly over distances greater than a kilometer. He continued to improve and test his device, along the way obtaining the first patent for the radio a few years after his early prototype.
His innovations in radio technology rapidly progressed. He managed to set up wireless infrastructure in France and England, allowing wireless communication across the channel and in 1901 he set up the first transatlantic wireless network, allowing for messages to be passed over a distance of 3360 kilometers.
He proved that radio waves do not follow the curvature of the earth, using the transatlantic system. In the late twenties and early thirties he helped to create one of the first radio telephones, between the Pope's summer residence and the Vatican. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. His inventions, much like Bell's, changed the way we communicate with each other, except his was on a global scale. Interestingly, like many great innovators and leaders of the 19th century he was never formally educated.
"In sketching the history of my association with radiotelegraphy, I might mention that I never studied physics or electrotechnics in the regular manner, although as a boy I was deeply interested in those subjects." (Fourth Paragraph) -Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1909
Yet his system connected the world and set the stage for global networking and communication. Today we can place a call to anywhere in the world wirelessly, thanks to the groundwork of Guglielmo Marconi.
"If it should become possible to transmit waves right round the world, it may be found that the electrical energy travelling round all parts of the globe may be made to concentrate at the antipodes of the sending station. In this way it may some day be possible for messages to be sent to such distant lands by means of a very small amount of electrical energy, and therefore at a correspondingly small expense." (Penultimate Paragraph) -Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1909
He died on July 20th, 1937 in Rome, Italy.