Guglielmo Marconi, b. 1874, d. 1937
One of the greatest and most original inventors of the twentieth
century, his inventions led to the development of the wireless
telegraph, the radio and all other sorts of telecommunications: I
sometimes refer to him as the one of the most brilliant a
nd, at the same time, one of the most unfortunate men of his time. His
relentless pursuit of novel means of telecommunications became an
all-consuming obsession, to the point where all that mattered was
For other references on the Web, cf.,
A Marconi Homepage
Look for Gulielmo Marconi using the FIND command
The Guglielmo Marconi Award