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Marconi’s first radio broadcast: 125 years ago

An amazing experiment that changed the way the world communicates forever. On May 13th 1897 Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi succeeded in sending a simple message using radio broadcast across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. Sending the morse code for 's' from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada more than 2,000 miles away. Other scientists at the time believed that the range of the transmission […]

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