[Scan-DC] Marconi, 100 years ago.

[b_thom@juno.com]

This has been posted elsewhere. I don't favor cross-posting much, but
I'll make this exception.

http://www.fox29.com/news/story.asp?subsection=world&content_id=1478266

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Marconi's daughter, radio enthusiasts celebrate 1903 breakthrough 

WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) _ One hundred years ago on Saturday, a young
Italian inventor named Guglielmo Marconi stood on a sandy bluff on Cape
Cod and sent a 54-word greeting from President Theodore Roosevelt across
the ocean to England's King Edward VII.

A few hours later, the king responded, completing a dialogue that at the
time seemed like pure magic.

Marconi had launched the era of global wireless communications.
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I'm sure this will cause a flood of "that's not right" rebuttals. I don't
mind.