{"slug": "guglielmo-marconi", "label": "Guglielmo Marconi", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36488", "qid": "Q36488", "description": "Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)", "entries": 11, "years": 7, "span": [1874, 1937], "span_label": ["1874 CE", "1937 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 8}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "nobel-prize-in-physics", "label": "Nobel Prize in Physics", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "st-john-s-newfoundland-and-labrador", "label": "St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "newfoundland-and-labrador", "label": "Newfoundland and Labrador", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "english-channel", "label": "English Channel", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1874, "year_label": "1874 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371979117#April", "title": "1874", "revid": 1371979117, "section": "Births › April"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 26", "text": "January 26 – German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun, who will later share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi, receives a British patent for his wireless radio invention \"Telegraphy without directly connected wire\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#January", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Guglielmo Marconi conducts radio beacon experiments on Salisbury Plain and notices that radio waves are being reflected back to the transmitter by objects they encounter, one of the early steps in the development of radar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#March", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 27", "text": "March 27 – Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmits a radio signal across the English Channel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#March", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "December 12", "text": "December 12 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu, England, to St. John's, Newfoundland; 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