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Marconi

Sunday, May 27, 1917

Signor Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer best known for pioneering long-distance radio transmission and developing Marconi's law. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909.

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