Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer born in 1874 who is considered the father of long distance radio transmission. He conducted pioneering experiments in wireless telegraphy in the 1890s, sending the first wireless signal across the Atlantic Ocean in 1901. For his contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy, Marconi was jointly awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun. He held several patents related to radio transmission and made numerous other advances in wireless communication over his career.