Inscription
From this site Guglielmo Marconi made the first public transmission of wireless signals on 27 July 1896.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
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Guglielmo Marconi
Born Bologna. Arrived in London, with his mother, in 1896 to patent his metho...
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