Guglielmo Marconi sent the first transatlantic radio transmission on Dec. 12, 1901, ushering in an era of communications. His invention helped save 700 Titanic passengers.

On July 21, 1937 - the day of Guglielmo Marconi's state funeral - at 6.00 pm Rome time, all the BBC's radio stations, as well as several others in Italy and in America, went off the air for two ...

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.

In this 1901 photograph, Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi reads signals on a tape recorder, left, with a 10-inch spark coil, right, used in 1901 for ship-to-shore tests.

Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna Italy on April 25, 1874, son of Italian nobleman Giuseppe Marconi and his Scottish/Irish wife, Annie Jameson. Money not being a problem for his family, ...

Dec. 12: Inventor Guglielmo Marconi amazes a London assemblage in 1896 with a demonstration of wireless communication across a room. Five years later to the date, Marconi sends the first signal ...

NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with Princess Mary Elettra Elena Anna Marconi about the work of her father, inventor Guglielmo Marconi. Tomorrow marks 100 years since he sent the ...