marconi in English
noun
family name; Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian electrical engineer and physicist, inventor of radio communication, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909, often referred to as the "father of radio"
Use "marconi" in a sentence
1. The airport is named after Bologna native Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate.
2. In 1909 Braun shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Marconi for "contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy."
3. The island used to host a Marconi wireless station and it still sees occasional amateur radio operators who use the callsign prefix CY9.
4. 1 Others trying to do that, like Lucent, Alcatel and Nortel, are in at least as bad shape as Marconi.
5. Guglielmo Marconi Bologna Airport: from the airport you can take the aerobus that will leave you in the station in about 20 min (5 euro).
6. Not only was the ship festooned with a bizarre array of copper aerials but on board was Signore Guglielmo Marconi, the scientific sensation of the day.
7. But by adapting and improving the available equipment and adding a crude antenna of his own, Marconi managed to transmit a telegraphic signal a considerable distance.
8. It was the first U.S. aircraft to have a modern head-up display, (made by Marconi-Elliott), now a standard instrument which displayed information such as dive angle, airspeed, altitude, drift and aiming reticle.
9. The sites were operated by a range of agencies including the Army, Navy and RAF plus the Foreign Office (MI6 and MI5), General Post Office and Marconi Company receiving stations ashore and afloat.
10. , in electronics, system of wires or other conductors used to transmit or receive radio or other electromagnetic waves (see radio); sometimes called an Aerial. The idea of using an antenna was developed by Guglielmo Marconi (c.1897).