In this episode of pplpod, we tune into the frequency of Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor largely credited with giving the world the radio. We trace his journey from a boy with no formal education experimenting in his father’s attic in Bologna to a Nobel Prize-winning celebrity whose technology revolutionized global communication.

Join us as we cover:

• The Attic to the Atlantic: How Marconi used a "coherer" and a grounded antenna to turn Hertzian waves into a practical communication system, eventually spanning the Atlantic Ocean with the Morse code letter "S".
• Rejection and Ruin: Why the Italian government ignored his work, leading him to England where paranoid customs officers destroyed his equipment, suspecting the young inventor was an anarchist with a bomb.