In 1959 Italian President Giovanni Gronchi unveiled the 42-meter high obelisk to honor the memory of inventor Guglielmo Marconi. Sculptor Arturo Dazzi carved scenes from Marcorni’s remarkable life into a hunk of Colorado marble and the distinguished crowd paid tribute the Nobel Prize winner, one of the world’s most influential scientists.
Marconi was born in Bologna in 1874, the son of an Irish noble woman and the wealthy Italian landowner. In the late 1800’s, he became fascinated with Heinrich Hertz’s discovery of electromagnetic radiation or radio waves. He conducted his experiments with the aim of developing a system that would use radio waves to transmit messages that costs vast distances while the electric telegraph had been doing this for sometime using telegraph wise Marconi was determined to establish a wireless telegraph system.
In 1997 he became the first President to send the wireless communication over water. He travels 14 kilometers across the Briscoe Channel on South Wales to Flat Holm Island. Marconi’s spend 50,000 pounds to set up the experiment that would provide the first wireless transmission across the Atlantic. Previously scientist still believe that the curvature of the earth would prevent the radio waves from reaching across such as a far distance but Marconi disagree and on the 12th of December 1901 after several unsuccessful attempts these are the hands of the earth that dot, dot, dot with the letter S being transmitted from Cornwall to Newfoundland.
Over the next decade, wireless stations were set up around the world and telegraph operators became important manual of ship crews. In 1909, the stress calls sent by a wireless telegraph absorbed 1700 lives following the coalition and sinking of two liners off the Coast of the United States. Within a few years it became mandatory to large ships to carry telegraphic equipment. Marconi was also instrumental in the development of commercial radio.
In 1920, his British factory was the site of in case first entertainment radio broadcast and regular broadcast prolongs in 1922. While Marconi scientific to see it’s the lord of the world over his political leanings were all controversial. In 1923 he joined the Italian fascist party and became a supporter of Benito Mussolini who appointed him to prominent decisions within his regime. Marconi also returned to his Catholic roots and following a divorce from his first wife in 1924 at the marriage annulled by the church in 1927. So we he could marry again.
His second wife was a daughter of Vatican nobility but they were only married for 10 years before Marconi died in 1937. In the unique tribute, radio transmitters were shut down across the world for two minutes of silence to honor the man who contributed so much to modern communication.
In 1894, Oxford physicist professor Oliver Lodge had successfully transmitted the Morse code message across 150 meters. However, the professor experiment is purely academic. Only Marconi planned to develop a commercial application for the technology and could see the immense benefits it would bring to shipping about military interest.
Marconi’s genius by being the discoverer of wireless technology, it wasn’t being the first person to apply the Science in effectible way and the years before his death she started experimenting with microwaves for grand navigation by radio beating. That technology was later developed into radar. Marconi’s company is still a leader in communications technology and employs more than 48,000 people. It was floated on the London’s stock exchange in 1999.
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