[HoustonHam] This day in History (Dec 12, 1901)

[Chris Boone]

THIS  DAY IN HISTORY .....      

(http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Marconi,+Guglielmo)

First Transatlantic Radio  Signal Received (1901)

Marconi was the Nobel Prize-winning Italian creator of the  radio telegraph
system. At 21, while experimenting with a homemade  apparatus, he
successfully sent signals across a distance of more than a  mile and set off
to London with his mother to find support for his work.  

 

He patented his system, organized a company to develop its  commercial
applications, and, on December 12,1901, transmitted the first  transatlantic
wireless signal. 

 

(Unfortunately, the site in the US has fallen in disrepair and little
remains on the site except for a plaque that denotes it as Marconi's site)