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A hundred years ago, the first transatlantic radio signal was sent from Cornwall to Newfoundland by Guglielmo Marconi, one of the pioneers of radio. The centenary is being marked with celebrations on both sides of the Atlantic, including a recreation of the historic transmission.

On 12 December 1901, Marconi was on Signal Hill in Newfoundland when he heard three faint clicks tapping out the Morse code for the letter "s". The signal was transmitted from Poldhu near Mullion, a distance of some 3,000 kilometres. It was the first time that the Atlantic Ocean had been bridged by radio.

The experiment showed that wireless signals could travel around the curvature of the Earth over long distances and paved the way for radio, television and modern telecommunications.



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Look how far we have come.

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great, so this is the goddamn advance that lead to us having to put up w/ your ass, even all the way on the other side of the world...

great....

j/k

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Seriously though..very interesting, and DAMN we have come a long way in that area (to bad in the area of human nature/development we haven't gotten this far).

I am interested in what the future holds for the telecommunications industry...any thoughts anyone?

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Originally posted by rage
I am interested in what the future holds for the telecommunications industry...any thoughts anyone?

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Originally posted by Spooky
by Guglielmo Marconi

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almost kind of sad that the first radio transmission was 3000 km, when 802.11b is pushing it at 150 m.

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I fail to see what a gigantic concrete phallus has to do with the first trans-atlantic radio signal. But then, I don't understand what an even larger marble phallus has to do with George Washington, so maybe it's just me.

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