Nobel Prize for physics in 1909, Guglielmo Marconi was born on April 25, 1874. He spent his childhood in Pontecchio, Villa Griffone, a small town near Bologna, where he developed his first scientific curiosity and developed his great discovery, the invention of the radio. It was here, in fact, that the scientist launched the first wireless telegraphy signal from a window, through the invention of a transmitting antenna, in the year 1895, through what would later become "the hill of the radio".