By the end of the century Marconi had managed to send signals over several miles with no wires, and the idea was taking hold with naval officials. In 1898 he sent a wireless message 18 miles.

The date is the 4th of June 1903, and the inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, is about to demonstrate his new wireless system, which he claims can securely send messages over a long distance, without ...

ROME — I believe the time has come for us to come to terms with perhaps the most illustrious Italian citizen of the 20th century: Guglielmo Marconi ... who had invented wireless: not just ...