MARION – They once towered over the landscape of Marion, giant steel structures that could be seen from the ocean, and that held sway over the way we communicated around the world when telegraph and ...

A MARCONI sound transmitter that hailed the coming of the Queen and the arrival of the Beatles should be laid to rest in a museum, its current owner says. Now having retired, owner Kerry Mitchell ...

150 years ago, on Saturday 25th April 1874, Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, the man who would pioneer the science of radio communication and build a world-wide electronic empire, was born in Bologna ...

Welcome to Time Machines, where we offer up a selection of mechanical oddities, milestone gadgets, and unique inventions to test out your tech-history skills. This device famously exhibited the ...

Marconi's Atlantic experiment was the culmination of a scientific curiosity that began many years before in the attic of an Italian villa. As the son of a wealthy Italian, Guiseppe Marconi, the young ...

The news that a judge has allowed a Titanic search party to cut open a small passageway into the ship to rescue the famed Marconi device that signaled its final SOS could solve some enduring mysteries ...

It is December, and for any die-hard radio enthusiast that brings Guglielmo Marconi to mind. It was on Dec. 12, 1901 that Marconi claims to have received the first transatlantic Morse code ...

Plans have been unveiled for a new €7.5 million national science and visitor centre in the midlands. The purpose-built facility, which is to be located on the site of a decommissioned RTÉ radio ...

A NEW system of short-wave radio communication is planned in East Africa, where a total of forty-eight Marconi short-wave transmitters are to be installed to provide a comprehensive communications ...

While celebrating the 100th anniversary of the BBC, our mind should also go to the unique story of one of its fathers: Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communications, born in Bologna ...