Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi ushered in a new era of global communications, sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901.

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 ...

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. (AP Photo/File) AP ...

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 ...

Marconi’s wireless telegraph sent an SOS signal from the sinking Titanic. “Late in the nineteenth century, Guglielmo Marconi began experimenting with electromagnetic waves to send signals.

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 ...