Marconi

In today’s increasingly connected world, it’s hard to imagine a time when worldwide communication required serious effort. Some visionaries could imagine a future where near-instantaneous communication was possible, but for most of the world it was only a pipe dream.
One of those visionaries was Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi was born to a life of privilege: his father was a wealthy Italian land owner and his mother was an heiress to the Jameson Whiskey fortune. As a child, Marconi was interested in physics and math, and had an early start in communications science; at 21 at his father’s estate in Italy, he managed to send wireless telegraphy signals over two kilometres. His work was inspired by Heinrich Hertz, who discovered wireless waves, James Clerk Maxwell, who first described electromagnetic waves, Oliver Lodge, a professor at Oxford University, and Augustus Righi, a physics professor at Bologna University and close family friend.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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