Guglielmo Marconi was born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy.Marconi was educated by tutors and at the Livorno Technical Institute and the University of Bologna.
In 1894 Marconi became fascinated with the discovery by German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz of “invisible waves” generated by electromagnetic interactions. Marconi built his own wave-generating equipment at his family’s estate and was soon sending signals to locations a mile away.