[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. |
| Mar·co·ni (mär-kō'nē) Italian engineer and inventor who in 1901 transmitted long-wave radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics. |
An Italian inventor and electrical engineer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His most famous invention is the wireless telegraph, the forerunner of present-day radio, which he developed in the 1890s. In 1909, Marconi received the Nobel Prize for physics.
| 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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