HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RADIO....

[TomZ]

December 12, 1896…Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London.

And 5 years later...

December 12, 1901…Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic radio signal, sent from Cornwall, England, was received by Percy Paget in St. John's, Newfoundland.

 

[rew]

I would like to see some detailed info on the transmitter and receiver that was used . I think it was a spark gap transmitter, early version of spread spectrum I guess. I wonder what frequency it was on.

 

[TomZ]

More than likely it was somewhere between DC and blue light... and it had to be awesome.

 

[Studio1]

It is appropriate then to give thanks to the pioneer of radio.

I say 'pioneer' because Marconi was not the 'inventor' of radio, he simply took an idea and made it work.

It was Tesla that actually 'invented radio'.

 

[Charlie]

There are a few of these dotted around the roads into my town: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2369639596_58d7ae43b4.jpg The old 2MT hut is in the local museum. Our local amateur radio club has some further reading: http://www.g0mwt.org.uk/new-street/index.htm.

Sadly, the old Marconi premises in New Street (just round the corner from where I work) have seen better days. Graffiti, vandalism etc.