Alfonso Marconi become capable of spanning greater distances and would prove valuable both commercially and militarily. Alfonso Marconi was a director of the American International Marine Communication Company and an avid collector of stringed instruments. He died suddenly at a London hotel on the evening of Friday 24 April 1936 following a heart attack (his brother died following a heart attack in 1937). Alfonso Marconi Alfonso Marconi (18651936) was an Italian businessman and collector of stringed instruments, most famous for assisting his younger brother Guglielmo Marconi in his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission Alfonso Marconi was born into the Italian nobility
Alexander Bain (inventor) restored in 1959. The headstone had a fallacious date of death (1876) which was later corrected to 1877. JD Wetherspoons pub in Wick, close to where Alexander Bain served his apprenticeship, is now named 'The Alexander Bain' after the inventor. Also, as a tribute to his inventions, the main BT building in Glasgow is named Alexander Bain House. One of the earliest examples of an electrically impulsed pendulum clock is on display at the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum. In 2016 he was awarded the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award "for his pioneering work in the transmission of images". Alexander Bain (inventor) Alexander