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

Those could include “objects from inside the Marconi room, but only if such objects are not affixed to the wreck itself.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 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

On impulse, he resolved to send Millet a midsea greeting via the Olympic's powerful Marconi wireless.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson