2-623-110 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Marconi wireless operator receiving wireless messages as the Empress of Britain crosses the Atlantic', c1934. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), an Italian physicist and inventor, sent the first radio signals across the Atlantic using a transmitter developed from this one. He later developed short-wave radio equipment, and established a worldwide radio telegraph network for the British government. In 1909 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. From The Treasury of Knowledge. [Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk, 1934]