• Heroes of the Telegraph:  from the World Wide School
• Sparks of Genius: an extensive collection of relevant biographies.
• Saints: The Heroes and Geniuses of the Electronic Era: a collection of biographies from the FETCHA.
• Edwin Armstrong (1890 - 1954) 
• Armstrong's 1936 IRE Paper on FM.
• eha1: the start of a excellent collection of Armstrong information and memorabilia.
• Zenith and the Dual Band FM Story

Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)

• Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone: deals with the evolution of the concept of telephony and its implementations.
• Who was? Alexander Graham Bell: a multifaceted, multimedia view of AGB -- from AT&T.
• Alexander Graham Bell Notebooks Project: an in depth study by Profs. Michael Gorman and W. Bernard Carlson at the University of Virginia.
• Reginald Fessenden Biography:

Guglielmo Marchese Marconi (1874 - 1937)

• Guglielmo Marconi and Early Systems of Wireless Communication: a downloadable paper (pdf) based on R.W. Simons's address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1984.
   
• 100 Years of Radio: a history which emphasizes the role of Marconi in radio.
• Biography of Guglielmo Marconi:
• Marconi, Gugleilmo - Nobel Biography
• Marconi at Rathlin Island
• Making Waves: a BBC site with includes many Marconi-relevant links.
• Guglielmo Marchese Marconi
• The Invention of Radio

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (1860 - 1940)

• Paul Nipkow

Alexander Stepanovitch Popov (1859 - 1906) 

• Alexander Popov: Russia's Radio Pioneer: a well balanced appraisal of Popov's contributions by James P. Rybak.
• Russia's Popov: Did he "invent" radio?
• Claude Shannon: good short biography.

Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943)

• Nikola Tesla Page
• Nikola Tesla vs. Guglielmo Marconi -- Who is the True Inventor of Radio?
• Nikola Tesla, Complete U.S. Patent Collection

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