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On the Stamp
A portrait of Guglielmo Marconi, in slate, on a ₹2 stamp.
Guglielmo Marconi
India Post issued this stamp on 12 December 1974 for the birth centenary of Guglielmo Marconi, born at Bologna on 25 April 1874. He sent his first wireless signals in 1895, patented wireless telegraphy in England in 1896, and in 1901 received signals across the Atlantic from Poldhu in Cornwall at St. John’s, Newfoundland. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. When he died in Rome on 20 July 1937, wireless stations around the world fell silent for two minutes. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.
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