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Guglielmo Marconi

Mr. Marconi is on or near the top of EVERYONE's list for telecommunications giants of the past. Another of the giants who put in place the building blocks for telecom, as a student Marconi was very interested in magnetism and applying Hertzian Waves. In 1896 he went for his first patent in radio. Mr. Marconi, unlike Tesla was a very practical man who understood business. He was very fast in commercializing his discoveries. In the summer of 1897 he started in London the first company dedicated to wireless telegraphs.

In 1899 he was the first to transmit a message across the English Channel and in 1901 he sent them across the Atlantic Ocean to North America from Cornwall England. The age of telecommunications surely began in earnest.

By 1907 a transatlantic wire service was established and he even won a Noble prize for Physics.

By 1924 he discovered skywave transmission which gave him the technology to offer world wide communications, connecting every part of the planet.

He was born in Bologna Italy on April 25, 1874 and lived to the summer of 1937, where he dies on July 20th in Rome.  Guglielmo Marconi forever has a place in history as one of the founders of the telecommunications industry. Of course without his works, call centers and answering services would not exist.

Additional Information on Guglielmo Marconi

Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Year book of wireless telegraphy and telephony, London : Published for the Marconi Press

Aitken, Hugh G. J., The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985.  ISBN 0-691-08376-2

Weightman, Gavin, Signor Marconi's magic box: the most remarkable invention of the 19th century & the amateur inventor whose genius sparked a revolution, 1st Da Capo Press ed., Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2003.   USBN 0-306-81275-4

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