Marconi's transmitter was set up as an experiment to see if radio messages could be sent from Rathlin to a reporting station at Torr Head, Ballycastle, where a watch was kept for passing ships. Marconi can be seen in the newsreel on the Titanic.

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 to 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radio telegraph system. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, 'in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy'.

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