Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874, Bologna, Italy – 20 July 1937, Rome) was an Italian physicist and inventor of a successful wireless telegraph.

Quotes

 * So be it, let it be so.
 * Marconi 1898, cited in: Alvin K. Benson (2010) Great Lives from History. p. 759
 * Content of the first wireless signals sent across the Bristol Channel.


 * This new form of communication could have some utility.
 * Marconi, 1899: cited in: Simon Saunders, ‎Alejandro Aragón-Zavala (2007) Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication. p. 361


 * Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?
 * Marconi, 1934: cited in Raboy, Marc (2016) |Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World, p. 631

About Marconi

 * The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"
 * "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909" at nobelprize.org Nobel Media AB 2013.