F. Ribelli, A. Scudellari
The invention of Marconi 
at the Museum of Radio and Television
The Rai Museum of Radio and Television (via Verdi 16, Turin) exhibits many objects linked to the history of communications. Starting from wire telegraphy (Morse and Hughes), proceeding to Volta, Faraday, Hertz, Maxwell, Righi, Rhumkorff’ scientific discoveries we arrive to the invention of wireless telegraphy by Marconi. On the occasion of recent celebrations, one hundred years from the first transoceanic wireless transmission, the Museum remembers everybody who gave a fundamental contribution in the historical and scientific way that brought about the most revolutionary of the discoveries: the possibility to communicate through electromagnetic waves.  

50 years from the first Trans-Atlantic transmission by radiotelegraphy 

Reprinting of the first article, in the first issue of the magazine, at that time issued every two months and named "Elettronica e Televisione Italiana", January-February 1952

Special Issue dedicated to Guglielmo Marconi
It is a partial reproduction of the "Special Issue dedicated to Guglielmo Marconi" by Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, April 1955.

The issue reports the anastatic printing of the booklet "Marconi Telegraphy and Journalism" issued in Bologna in 1898 by Nicola Zanichelli.