Guglielmo Marconi (telegraphy pioneer). Commemoration.

Description: Series of 3 stamps with identical subject.
Date of issue: January 24, 1938. Valid up to September 31, 1938.

Italian physicist and inventor of a successful system of radiotelegraphy (1896). In 1909 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He later worked on the development of short-wave wireless communication, which constitutes the basis of nearly all-modern long-distance radio.

Arms of Savoy with big fasces at the bottom

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