Science, inventions & engineering
Guglielmo Marconi
1874–1937
Massachusetts connection
South Wellfleet, near Marconi Beach
Marconi was an Italian inventor who developed wireless communication. In 1903 his South Wellfleet station sent a message from President Theodore Roosevelt across the Atlantic. The nearby beach preserves his name. This was a Cape Cod milestone, not Marconi’s first experiment with wireless signals.
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