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n. - Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937).

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  • Marconi is another tapered, sweet heirloom, but it grows as long as 12 inches.
  • He did not make the affair large enough to carry a man, but he made an extremely ingenious use of what were then called the Marconi rays to control its flight.
  • Here was the same cable, stretched taut between the bow and what might in Elizabeth's time have been called a Marconi tower, creating a brilliant orange triangle.
  • It's smaller than Marconi, meaning the growth cycles are shorter, and it's even more fruitful.
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