Guglielmo Marconi was born in 1874 to an Italian father and an Irish mother. His mother's family owned the Jameson Whiskey distillery in Co Wexford. Marconi was an engineer who made pioneering developments in wireless telegraphy as a result of assorted experimental transmissions, many of which were carried out around Ireland's coastline. In fact there are Marconi "stations" dotted all over Ireland as far north as Rathlin Island and as far south as Mizen Head. A Marconi rig was on board R.M.S. Titanic and was the means by which the distress call was sent out when she hit the iceberg.
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