Gugleilmo Marconi Master of radio telegraph He was a businessman with big ideas about how to take a technology and do something with it He did some technological improvement He improved on a transmitter of early development by Henrick Hertz He did the first successful transatlantic transmission When you think about it doing something like that is a combination of technology and economics and visionary He was also a diplomat established british interests to cooperate to make transatlantic business to work What made him successful Previous technological development his own vision of what technology could do his own skills as a businessman to some degree his knowledge of some cultures and how to work among them Great men don t come out of nowhere
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