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Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Guglielmo Marconi (1874 1937)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Guglielmo Marconi from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Guglielmo Marconi (1874 1937)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Guglielmo Marconi from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Guillermo Marconi

For Students 9th - 10th
This site chronicles the father of wireless communication. Examines his life and how his accomplishments affected both society and warfare.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Guglielmo Marconi

For Students 9th - 10th
(1875- ) Italian electrical engineer famous as the inventor of wireless telegraphy
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Guglielmo Marconi

For Students 9th - 10th
(1874-1937) Italian inventor and Nobel Prize winner for his invention of wireless telegraphy.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Guglielmo Marconi

For Students 9th - 10th
An Italian inventor who is best known for his development of a radio telegraph system.
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PBS

Pbs: Technology and Discoveries

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical survey of people who had an impact on 20th century technology and science, including Wallace Carothers, Rachel Carson, Lee de Forest, Henry Ford, Jay Forrester, Grace Murray Hopper, Guglielmo Marconi, William Shockley,...
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: The Case Files: History of Communications

For Students 9th - 10th
Look back in time at some of the people who invented the first technologies for communicating across time and distance that form the foundations of today's information society.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides a lecture given by Nanny Froman at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in Sotckholm, Sweden. "Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium" is organized into several sections including:...
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Golden Age of Radio in the Us

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition explores the development, rise, and adaptation of the radio and its impact on American culture.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: John Ambrose Fleming

For Students 9th - 10th
John Ambrose Fleming was an electronics pioneer who invented the oscillation valve, or vacuum tube, a device that would help make radios, televisions, telephones and even early electronic computers possible. A brilliant innovator,...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Rescue at Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website to the PBS documentary on the collision of two ships in 1909 and the reliance on the newly invented telegraph for rescue.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Who Invented the Radio? Unraveling Its History

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the long history of the radio and the work of the many scientists who contributed to its invention.
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Article
Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Create Indoor Kite [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn how Ben Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, and Guglielmo Marconi used kites as tools to spur innovation. Then follow the directions provided to create your own kite for flying indoors.