Guglielmo Marconi was born into a prosperous family in Bologna, Italy, April 25, 1874. He was educated in Bologna and later in Florence. He studied physics in college Leghom. I was fascinated Herz with the discovery of radio waves and became interested in wireless telegraphy in 1890.
Beginning in 1894, Marconi worked on prototypes in his basement home.
Today most of us think of a radio receiver and an amplified stethoscope type allows us to hear the hidden world of the radio spectrum. At times the main precedent Marconi radio was the telegraph. This concept of throwing telegrams telegraph operator to another operator using Morse code influenced Marconi's vision of what he had to try to build. In the conventional telegraph signal in the cable hooked a resonator was a type of electro-magnetic relay. The resonator was click noises that the recipient operator interpreted as dots and dashes.
Similarly, the first radio transmission by Marconi to another room in the house rang a bell when the signal was detected. There were headphones to listen to a person. The first experimenters built radios recalled more radio systems that control the listening devices. As technology developed, the radio operator became a vital part of the system. The skill and training of operator's ear became responsible for qualifying and practice of the system. A trained operator could hear Morse code signals were only stronger than the static air. Unlike a simple bell system, an operator can copy a Morse code signal while ignoring another. It took one hundred years computerize digital signal processing to overcome the ability of a trained radio operator and return to Marconi's vision of a robotic host.
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