October 8 | 2:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Event Hosts: Drexel University | Consulate General of Italy | Pi-Philly Italian Professionals in Philadelphia

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel prize in physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy." On the occasion of the 140 years of Guglielmo Marconi, PI-Philly Italian Professionals in Philadelphia, Drexel University and The Consul General of Italy in Philadelphia would like to dedicate to him one day of celebrations. The event will consist in a symposium on the communications technology: yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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Source: Ciao Philadelphia