The next time you pick up a mobile phone, spare a thought for the pioneer of wireless communications technology. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was the Italian inventor of wireless telegraph, or radio, and shared the 1909 Nobel Prize for Physics with German physicist Ferdinand Braun.
Guglielmo Marconi’s biography reveals an incredible link with the creators of one of the world’s most famous Irish whiskeys. A look at the incredible Irish connections of radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi and his mother’s famous family.
Guglielmo Marconi’s biography reveals an incredible link with the creators of one of the world’s most famous Irish whiskeys. A look at the incredible Irish connections of radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi and his mother’s famous family.
It is with profound sadness the family announces the passing of Edward Francis O’Brien. Ed died peacefully at home with his children by his side.
“I was born April 17, 1940 into a wonderful life. I attended the initial year of teacher’s training in Thunder Bay and practised for thirty-nine years as teacher and principal in the Thunder Bay Catholic School System. I am profoundly grateful to have been born into a prosperous land at peace throughout most of my lifetime, to have been raised by loving parents whose devotion to my upbringing I truly appreciated only after they were gone and to a profession that allowed me to earn a comfortable living doing what brought me deep satisfaction. I am thankful for the opportunity to have acquired an education that enhanced my life, for the friends who accompanied me on this great adventure and for my children and grandchildren, the monuments to my existence, of whom I am immensely proud. My day is done, but I am