The Life And Impact Of Guglielmo Marconi
Andrew Rinella
Taylor/3
Chemistry Honors
February 24, 2016
The Life and Impact of Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi was born on April 25, 1874 in Bologna, Italy. Marconi had one brother and was the son of Giuseppe Marconi and Annie Jameson. He was born into a wealthy family and was privately educated in the Italian cities of Bologna, Florence, and Leghorn. He was fascinated with the work of a well known scientist, Heinrich Hertz, and his discoveries on radio waves. In 1895, at one of his father’s estates, Marconi succeeded in sending radio signals across the estate(about 1 mile). Marconi’s father realized his father had made a significant discovery and Guglielmo went to England in 1896 to publicize. (Saari) Marconi’s system performed successfully …show more content…
A radio wave is a type of electromagnetic wave. Radio waves have the longest wavelength(distance between successive crests of a wave) out of all of the types of electromagnetic waves known. Other properties of electromagnetic waves that are significant to Marconi’s discovery is that they can travel through empty space and travel at the speed of light. He combined this knowledge of radio waves and electromagnetic waves to create his wireless radio.(Radio Waves) Marconi built his first radio with, of course, a transmitter and a receiver. Influenced by Hertz’s experiments, Marconi created an electrical circuit in which radio waves were produced. He used a coherer in the receiver to pick up radio signals and later added wire antennas to improve it. A coherer is a glass tube with loosely packed metal particles inside of it used to pick up radio signals. These were the basics of the radio he first used to send radio signals across a long distance.(Saari) Marconi’s addition of the wire antennas was very significant and proved to be a necessity for the development of the radio. When waves reach an antenna, electric charges move up and down it. The radio detects the motion of the electric charges and therefore, detects the radio wave.(Radio Frequency)Radios convert the radio waves into vibrations. The vibrations turn into sound waves which are the sounds that are possible to hear. Also,
Taylor/3
Chemistry Honors
February 24, 2016
The Life and Impact of Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi was born on April 25, 1874 in Bologna, Italy. Marconi had one brother and was the son of Giuseppe Marconi and Annie Jameson. He was born into a wealthy family and was privately educated in the Italian cities of Bologna, Florence, and Leghorn. He was fascinated with the work of a well known scientist, Heinrich Hertz, and his discoveries on radio waves. In 1895, at one of his father’s estates, Marconi succeeded in sending radio signals across the estate(about 1 mile). Marconi’s father realized his father had made a significant discovery and Guglielmo went to England in 1896 to publicize. (Saari) Marconi’s system performed successfully …show more content…
A radio wave is a type of electromagnetic wave. Radio waves have the longest wavelength(distance between successive crests of a wave) out of all of the types of electromagnetic waves known. Other properties of electromagnetic waves that are significant to Marconi’s discovery is that they can travel through empty space and travel at the speed of light. He combined this knowledge of radio waves and electromagnetic waves to create his wireless radio.(Radio Waves) Marconi built his first radio with, of course, a transmitter and a receiver. Influenced by Hertz’s experiments, Marconi created an electrical circuit in which radio waves were produced. He used a coherer in the receiver to pick up radio signals and later added wire antennas to improve it. A coherer is a glass tube with loosely packed metal particles inside of it used to pick up radio signals. These were the basics of the radio he first used to send radio signals across a long distance.(Saari) Marconi’s addition of the wire antennas was very significant and proved to be a necessity for the development of the radio. When waves reach an antenna, electric charges move up and down it. The radio detects the motion of the electric charges and therefore, detects the radio wave.(Radio Frequency)Radios convert the radio waves into vibrations. The vibrations turn into sound waves which are the sounds that are possible to hear. Also,