Today, 88 years ago, on July 20, 1937 (June 13 of the Lunar calendar), the founder of radio communications Marconi died in Rome.

In December 1901, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi managed to transmit radio signals using the Morse code, and crossed the Atlantic for the first time at a distance of 3,200 kilometers. This incident caused shock, and Marconi became a world famous overnight, even scientists who think that radio is a straight line transmission and can not orbit with the curve of the earth have blamed him.

Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy on 25 April 1874, studied physics under the guidance of several renowned teachers and had the opportunity to understand the work of some physicists in the field of electromagnetic radiation. Marconi was interested in transmitting Morse codes using the "invisible rays" of the Hertz, and in 1894 he began experimenting with this work at his father's estate. Though the new system developed by Marconi was scientific and practical and was soon able to transmit radio signals to a distance beyond 2 kilometers, he did not have any sponsorship in Italy to continue his work, so someone suggested him to go to England.

In February 1896, Marconi arrived in London, where he spent five years experimenting and improving the performance of the equipment and expanding the effective range of transmission, greatly enhancing the application value of communications and attracting the attention of the British Army and Navy departments. In 1897, he helped establish Radio Telecommunications Co., Ltd., which became Marconi Radio Telecommunications Co., Ltd. in the 19th century. In March 1899, he completed the first international radio call (radio telephone) between Britain and France.

Although most of Marconi's work is based on other people's ideas and discoveries, he still has several patents and is considered to have made some famous inventions. These patents include: the patent for the first radio telegram based on applied electrical waves (1896); the spacecraft antenna (1900); the magnetic detector (1902); the horizontal oriented antenna (1915); and the timeline flash system that generates false continuous waves (1912).

From about 1916 onwards, Marconi began to use shortwave radio waves that can more effectively transmit radiation energy. In 1924, Marconi obtained a contract to establish shortwave communications between England and the United Kingdom, and before 1929, a worldwide communication network was formed. In 1932, Marconi installed a shortwave radio telephone between the Vatican and the Pope's summer residence in Gallenburg.

Marconi served several times in the government: he was sent as a plenipotentiary representative to the 1919 Paris Conciliation, and in 1923 he joined the Fascist Party, becoming a friend of Mussolini. Marconi has received several honourable degrees and numerous awards, including the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Carl Brown, and was ordained a marshal in 1929 as the president of the Royal Academy of Italy.

Marconi died in Rome on July 20, 1937.When he died, the Italian government held a state funeral for him.