The Marconi School of Wireless, New York. Wireless operators copying messages transmitted from ships at sea. New York, 1912. The Marconi School of Wireless was the only facility offering training in radio and wireless telegraphy for many years. Marconi opened the first training school in Essex, England, in 1901, and later expanded to other locations including London, Liverpool, New York, Madrid, and Sydney. Montage of Guglielmo Marconi, including him with instruments used to receive the first transatlantic wireless signals. Guglielmo Marconi (April 25, 1874 - July 20 1937) was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun.