Guglielmo Marconi sent and received the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean

Guglielmo Marconi sent and received the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean featured image - on that day

Date : 1901-December-12

Country : England (United Kingdom)

Description :

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and engineer. He developed and demonstrated the first successful long-distance wireless telegraph and broadcast the first transatlantic radio signal.

In 1899, Guglielmo Marconi founded the London-based Marconi Telegraph Company. On December 12, 1901, Marconi sent and received the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean, from Cornwall, England, to a military base in Newfoundland, Canada. Also, Marconi’s message traveled more than 2,000 miles from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada. He tried to send these radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean, ignored of predictions that the radio waves would be lost as the earth curved over that long distance.

Category : Innovation

Related Incidents

1807 Innovation of the steamboat

1926 John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a live television system

1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announced that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in the universe

1895 German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-Rays

1814 Innovation of the steam locomotive (engine)

1921 The Communist Party of China (CPC) was formed, and Chen Duxiu was elected its leader

1804 Haiti declared its independence from France

1836 Spain recognized the independence of Mexico by signing the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty

1949 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands signed the papers to grant independence to Indonesia

1964 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law

1964 Kenya became a republic

1876 Innovation of the telephone

1945 International Monetary Fund was formally established by 29 member countries

1940 Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain

1767 King Taksin was crowned King of Thailand (Siam)