[mahr-koh-nee; It. mahr-kaw-nee] 
| Gu⋅gliel⋅mo [goo-lyel-maw] , Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, esp. in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel prize for physics 1909. |
| Marconi (mär-kō'nē) Pronunciation Key
Italian physicist and inventor who was the first to use radio waves to transmit signals in Morse code across the Atlantic Ocean (1901). Soon after his experiment, he developed shortwave radio equipment and helped establish radio as a widely used medium for communications. |
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