Guglielmo Marconi

Established in 1989 and named after inventor and Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi, the NAB Marconi Radio Awards are given to radio stations and outstanding on-air personalities to recognize excellence in radio.

Today is International Marconi Day, a 24-hour amateur radio event which celebrates the huge part Guglielmo Marconi played in the invention of radio.

Marconi Society was established in 1974 by Guglielmo Marconi's daughter in a bid to promote advancement in telecommunications and the internet.

| 1896: Guglielmo Marconi patented his invention of the "wireless".

1896 The world's first patent for a radio communications device is filed in Britain by Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian-born inventor.

1896 - Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio.

The island sits below Cardiff and marks the most southerly point of Wales - and is where Guglielmo Marconi sent the first ever radio signal across water.

The 86-acre island in the Bristol Channel is the most southerly point of Wales, and is where Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signal across water.

The award was established in 1974 by Gioia Marconi Braga to honor her father, Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio.

Westford's credibility is endorsed by the partnerships it holds with globally reputed Universities, namely University of Wolverhampton (U.K.), Cardiff Metropolitan University (U.K.) and Guglielmo Marconi University (U.S.

There Guglielmo Marconi was hard at work developing the first long-distance radio transmissions.

Strictly speaking, they should have waited until December, because that was when, in 1897, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi first sent a radio broadcast from The Needles.