Gugielmo who?

Top right, behind the sail, is where Guglielmo Marconi stood on December 12, 1901, flying a kite with an antenna wire attached.

He picked up a signal transmitted from Cornwall, England -- the letter "S" in Morse code. It was the first long-distance wireless transmission.

The transatlantic cable companies, afraid of competition, ran the inventor of radio broadcasting out of town.

Of course, the Canadian Reginald Fessenden had successfully broadcast a voice message a year earlier, but that's another story.

The Battery Radio studios are in the centre of the photo.

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		Where radio was born.
	Top right, behind the sail, is where Guglielmo Marconi stood on December 12, 1901, flying a kite with an antenna wire attached. He picked up a signal transmitted from Cornwall, England -- the letter "S" in Morse code. It was the first long-distance wireless transmission. The transatlantic cable companies, afraid of competition, ran the inventor of radio broadcasting out of town. Of course, the Canadian Reginald Fessenden had successfully broadcast a voice message a year earlier, but that's another story. The Battery Radio studios are in the centre of the photo.