1. NOTE: To change the image on this slide, select the picture and delete it. Then click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. GUGLIELMO MARCONI

2. Guglielmo Marconi BIRTH April 25, 1874 Bologna, Italy

3. Guglielmo Marconi DEATH July 20, 1937 Rome, Italy

4. Guglielmo Marconi 1895 Began lab experiments.

5. Guglielmo Marconi 1896 Granted patent for wireless telegraphy in England.

6. Guglielmo Marconi 1897 Formed Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company.

7. Guglielmo Marconi 1899 Established wireless communication across English Channel between France and England.

8. Guglielmo Marconi 1900 Received patent No. 7777 for “tuned syntonic telegraphy.”

9. Guglielmo Marconi 1901 Transmitted first wireless signals across Atlantic between Poldhu, Cornwall and St. John’s Newfoundland, a distance of 2100 miles.

10. Guglielmo Marconi 1902 Transmitted first complete messages to Poldhu from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

11. Guglielmo Marconi 1909 Won Nobel Prize for physics.

12. Guglielmo Marconi 1922 - 1935 Developed the concept of naval radar. He predicted its evolution in 1922 and demonstrated it for the Italian Navy in 1935.

13. Guglielmo Marconi 1932 Established the first microwave radiotelephone link between Vatican City and Castel Gandolfo.