Guglielmo Marconi fits Schumpeter’s model down to the last detail and he changed the world economy every bit as much as that model predicts. It has to be said that none of this might have happened ...

Guglielmo Marconi was born in Italy in 1874 to a rather wealthy Italian father and Irish mother. He was educated privately and then went to the Livorno Technical Institute. While there, he read an ...

April marks the 145th celebration of Marconi’s birth in Bologna, Italy, and this year is the 110th anniversary of his winning the Nobel Prize in Physics. He was the first person to ...

Electric personality: Guglielmo Marconi caricatured by Spy (Sir Leslie Matthew Ward), 1905. (Courtesy: Sir L Ward, Vanity Fair 1905/Wellcome Trust) In July 1897 the young Italian entrepreneur ...

Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna Italy on April 25, 1874, son of Italian nobleman Giuseppe Marconi and his Scottish/Irish wife, Annie Jameson.

The memorial to Guglielmo Marconi, who pioneered long-distance radio waves. It was dedicated in 1941 at 16th and Lamont streets NW. Above the bust of Marconi is a female figure representing ...

Saturday was International Marconi Day, when ham radio operators worldwide honor Guglielmo Marconi, who 120 years ago did some of his early wireless work in Babylon.

In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi was all set to demonstrate wireless transmission in England was going apace. Marconi had many rivals, and a pretty substantial ego. The latter led him to claim that his ...