Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor Size:S: 60 x 45cm Daily Herald race meeting at

Daily Herald race meeting at Oulton Park

Figures dressed in masquerade costume at Vauxhall Gardens

A print from The Graphic

the Ventoux (two-window and four-window)

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor Size:S: 60 x 45cm Daily Herald race meeting atGuglielmo Marconi (1874 1937), Italian physicist and inventor, 1926. Marconi discovered a way in which waves could be used to send messages from one place to another without wires or cables. Having read about Heinrich Hertz's work with electromagnetic waves, he began experiments of his own, and in 1894 successfully sounded a buzzer 9 metres away from where he stood. In 1902 Marconi sent a radio signal across the Atlantic in Morse code. Five years