Marconi

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Over the next decade, Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian aristocrat, developed a practical system of wireless telegraphy using radio waves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Loyd Sigmon was born in 1909, the year that Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun split a Nobel Prize for “their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

The company’s original 2024 expedition plan also included possibly retrieving objects from the ship’s famed Marconi room.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

The Marconi room holds the ship’s radio - a Marconi wireless telegraph machine - which broadcast the Titanic’s increasingly frantic distress signals after the ocean liner hit an iceberg.

From Washington Times • Aug. 29, 2023

The high-voltage transformers in the courtyard also were showing their age; Brobeck appraised them as “equipment Marconi would have recognized.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik