On this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi sends first transatlantic radio message
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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.
The wireless signal traveled 2,000 miles from a transmitting station in Poldhu, Cornwall, in the far southwestern corner of England, to a receiving station in St. John's, Newfoundland. "His radio apparatus is widely considered to be the reason that over 700 people survived the Titanic disaster in 1912." Marconi earned the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing the honor with German radio pioneer Ferdinand Braun. Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
"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.