Place: Italy Subject : biography, technology and manufacturing Italian electrical engineer who saw the possiblity of using radio waves - long-wavelength electromagnetic radiation - for the transmission of information. He was the first to put such a service into operation on a commercial scale, and was responsible for many of the developments that made radio and telegraph services into major industries. Marconi was born in Bologna into a wealthy family on 25 April 1874. His education consisted largely of private tutoring, although he was sent for a brief period to the Technical Institute in Livorno where he received instruction in physics. He studied under a number of prominent Italian professors but never enrolled for a university course. His studies of radio transmission began on his father's estate in the 1890s. By 1897 he had established a commercial enterprise in London, based on developments from his early work. He became famous in 1901 when he succeeded in sending a transatlantic…