Similarly, inventor Guglielmo Marconi proved the feasibility of sending messages through the air what we now know as the Radio.

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A which was where Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, started off his business before he moved to Britain in search of capital a century ago.

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But Tesla's work lost much of its financial backing after inventor Guglielmo Marconi sent radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean, and the lab site was lost in 1915.

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The Vatican has long shown interest in using the latest communications technologies to spread the faith with the inventor of radio, Guglielmo Marconi, setting up Vatican Radio in 1931.

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