EXHIBITS: Birth of Wireless
Science · 2001
One hundred years ago on a windy December day in Newfoundland, Guglielmo Marconi flew a giant kite and picked up the first transatlantic, Morse code message beamed from Cornwall, England, launching the era of wireless communication. Marconi's work is commemorated in MarconiCalling, a new online Web site from Marconi Corp. plc, the U.K.-based company that the half-Italian, half-Irish physicist founded. (In the United States, it became RCA.)