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Phones, cameras, TV’s, radios, and basically all wireless communication are the results from Gugliemlo Marconi’s work. Many people confuse Marconi with the invention of the radio, however this would be incorrect. Marconi invented an much more important invention, this was the invention of wireless communication. Marconi was born in Bologna on April 25th 1874 (www.alpcom.it). By the age of eighteen he was very interested in physics and how things worked. He made aware of the invention of the radio (partly by Maxwell, Hertz, Righi, Calzecchi-Onesti & Branly). He thought that there must be a way in which the radio would be able to communicate using voice (at this time the radio was only able to send small “dots” through wires). When he was twenty he set out to work (in his home) and he was determined to make his theories become a reality. He worked all day and all night to try and make a wireless radio, which could send and receive signals. He used many materials such as: copper wire, brass, spheres, Ruhmkorff coils. He made it alone, with no help or much support from anyone. He made antennas and almost right away he was able to send different sounds between a range of ten meters. The way in which this invention worked was (and is) simple, all that needed to be done was “improve the antenna, coherer, and tuning components, and rapidly developed a capability to wirelessly transmit signals over several miles” (www.cs.berkeley.edu).
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