Marconi made instant communication between the Old World and New World possible , and is, to a small extent, responsible for us being able to communicate as we are on the internet.
He lived from 1874 to 1937. When he learned of the existence of radio waves, he started building a system that would allow the transmission of telegraph signals without wires. A year later he could transmit a signal over a distance of 2 kilometer. By 1899, he had transmitted a signal across the English Channel. In 1901, Marconi received a signal from Cornwall, England which started the dawn of transatlantic radio communications. Because of his work with Hertzian waves, Marconi was awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize for Physics
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