AESS historical interview: A friendly conversation with Princess Elettra Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian country gentleman, and Annie Jameson, daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in the County Wexford, Ireland [1]. He was educated privately in Bologna, Florence, and Leghorn. Even as a boy, he took a keen interest in physical and electrical science and studied the works of Maxwell and Hertz. In 1895, he began laboratory experiments at his father's country estate at Pontecchio, where he succeeded in sending wireless signals over a distance of 1.5 mi.