Guglielmo Marconi sent the first transatlantic radio transmission on Dec. 12, 1901, ushering in an era of communications. His invention helped save 700 Titanic passengers.
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The wireless signal traveled 2,000 miles from a transmitting station in Poldhu, Cornwall, in the far southwestern"Today, our world of smartphones, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, satellite TV and radio, Global Positioning Systems and wireless computer networking was largely imagined by and based on Marconi’s electrical experiments," says the Pioneer Institute, in independent think tank.
A Marconi wireless telegraph machine was installed on the doomed Titanic just weeks before it set sail. Survivors of The Rms Titanic in one of her collapsible lifeboats, just before being picked up by The Carpathia. Woman share in the rowing. "In 1895 he began laboratory experiments at his father’s country estate at Pontecchio, where he succeeded in sending wireless signals over a distance of one and a half miles," reports the Nobel Foundation.
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