UA year before gaining power, Mussolini said in a speech that “Italy is Marconi’s magnetic wave†, referring to the inventor of radiotelephony Guglielmo Marconi, who would later reciprocate with the following statement o: “I claim the honor of having been the first fascist in radiotelegraphy, the first to recognize the usefulness of bringing together electric rays into a beam, just as Mussolini was the first to recognize in the political field the need to bring together energies health benefits of the country in a single bundle [fascio] for the greater greatness of Italy.â€
