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Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi, shown here about 1908, invented a successful wireless telegraph (that is, a radio) in 1896.
Guglielmo Marconi began his pioneering radio experiments in 1894 at his family’s country estate near Bologna, Italy.12
Working with relatively simple equipment, including an induction coil and a coherer, he conducted preliminary tests before systematically increasing his signaling range by utilizing a vertical aerial. These early efforts successfully demonstrated the potential of wireless communication, eventually leading him to continue his work in England in 1896.12