Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi ushered in a new era of global communications, sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901.

Marconi’s wireless telegraph sent an SOS signal from the sinking Titanic. “Late in the nineteenth century, Guglielmo Marconi began experimenting with electromagnetic waves to send signals.

An exhibition celebrating the inventor of radio and the world's first purpose-built radio factory opens next month. Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) will showcase items from Guglielmo Marconi's ...