1874 MARCONI'S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD 1895 EARLY EXPERIMENTS REJECTION BY IMP&T; DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND 1896 MEETING WITH PREECE FIRST WIRELESS DEMONSTRATIONS IN ENGLAND TOYNBEE HALL DEMONSTRATION MARCONI FILES PAPERS FOR HIS FIRST PATENT 1897 FURTHER WIRELESS DEMONSTRATIONS DINNER IN ROME WITH KING AND QUEEN OF ITALY REGISTRATION OF MARCONI'S FIRST COMPANY IN THE UK NEW RECRUITS AND COMPANY EXPANSION WORLD'S FIRST WIRELESS STATION - ISLE OF WIGHT MARCONI TAKES ON TELEFUNKEN AND GERMANY 1898 REPORTING ON THE DEATH OF GLADSTONE FIRSTS OF EARLY SUMMER FIRST USE OF WIRELESS TO REPORT SPORTING EVENTS FIRST ROYAL USE OF WIRELESS 1899 FIRST USE OF WIRELESS AS AID TO SHIPS IN DISTRESS FIRST INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS MESSAGE FIRST USES OF WIRELESS IN NAVAL MANOEUVRES BOER WAR FIRST USE OF WIRELESS USED TO PRODUCE NEWSPAPER AT SEA REGISTRATION OF MARCONI'S US SUBSIDIARY FIRST US LEGAL ACTION IN DEFENCE OF PATENT 1900 FURTHER COMPANY EVENTS FOUR SEVENS AMBROSE FLEMING CONSTRUCTION OF POLDU STATION BEGINS NEW CENTURY BEGINS WITH MORE FIRSTS 1901 CONSTRUCTION STARTS AT CAPE COD FIRST US LIGHTSHIP TO USE WIRELESS; AND OTHER EVENTS FIRST TRANSATLANTIC TRANSMISSIONS 1902 MAGNETIC DETECTOR KINGS, TSARS AND THE CARLO ALBERTO FIRST PRACTICAL TRANSATLANTIC MESSAGES 1903 GLACE BAY COMPANY INCOME EXCEEDS EXPENDITURE FOR THE FIRST TIME CONGRATULATIONS, HONOURS AND ROYAL ENCOUNTERS 1904 INVENTION OF THERMIONIC VALVE FIRST WIRELESS LEGISLATION (MARCONIGRAMS) 1905 MARRIAGE TO BEATRICE O' BRIEN 1907 FINANCIAL CRISIS 1909 SS REPUBLIC MARCONI AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS 1910 FIRST AIR-TO-GROUND EXPERIMENTS IMPERIAL WIRELESS SCHEME DR. CRIPPEN 1911 MARCONIGRAPH PROFESSOR OLIVER LODGE'S THREAT AND PAY-OFF 1912 INAUGURATION OF FIRST PURPOSE-BUILT WIRELESS FACTORY TITANIC MARCONI SCANDAL 1914 WWI 1919 MARCONI BUYS ELETTRA 1920 MELBA: THE BIRTH OF BROADCASTING 1923 SHORT WAVE 'BEAM' SYSTEM MARRIAGE TO MARIA CRISTINA BEZZI-SCALI 1924 FINANCIAL CRISIS IN THE COMPANY 1927 REALISATION OF WORLD-WIDE WIRELESS CABLE & WIRELESS 1931 MICROWAVE EXPERIMENTS 1933 WORLD TOUR 1934 BLIND NAVIGATION BY SHORT WAVE RADIO 1935 DEVELOPMENT OF RADAR DIPLOMATIC MISSION 1936 HIGH-DEFINITION TV 1937 DEATH OF MARCONI 2001 MARCONI OVERVIEW