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Marconi, Guglielmo
 lived around 1900. Just along the coast is the site of the Poldhu Wireless Station from where, on 12 December 1901, Marconi transmitted the first radio signal, a letter ‘S,’ across the Atlantic to St John\'s in Nova Scotia.', copy:'(Image © RM)'});)
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Italian electrical engineer and pioneer in the invention and development of radio. In 1895 he achieved radio communication over more than a mile, and in England in 1896 he conducted successful experiments that led to the formation of the company that became Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Ltd. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 for the development of wireless telegraphy.
After reading about radio waves, Marconi built a device to transmit these electromagnetic waves and receive them as electrical signals. He then tried to transmit and receive radio waves over increasing distances. In 1898 he successfully transmitted signals across the English Channel, and in 1901 established communication with St John's, Newfoundland, from Poldhu in Cornwall, and in 1918 with Australia.
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