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It was on December
12 1901 that Guglielmo Marconi made his historic trans-Atlantic
wireless leap.
The message,
sent from Poldhu in West Cornwall, was received by Marconi in Newfoundland.
100 years
later and the
world's media arrived at the new Marconi Centre in Cornwall to celebrate
the centenary.
The first trans-Atlantic
wireless signal was recreated again to mark the centenary.
A message was
sent across the Atlantic from Poldhu to Newfoundland from the Queen.
The message to the people of Canada was read by Lady Mary Holborrow,
the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
Across the field
near the remains of Marconi's original building where he transmitted,
his grandson was to send a message to Signal Hill in Newfoundland.
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| Marconi's
Grandson carries out the centenary transmission. |
He was going
to use a spark gap transmitter built by the Royal Navy Training
school, Thunderer Squadron. The equipment was similar to that used
successfully by Marconi in 1901.
At 4pm exactly
Mr Marconi used the equipment to send a message spelling out the
letter "S" in morse code.
The three dots
were successfully received in Signal Hill. They responded with the
letter "R".
The experiment
was carried out to the second to coincide with the 100th anniversary
of the original trans-Atlantic Leap in 1901.
It was on December
12 1901 that Marconi was able to silence his critics proving his
wireless system could travel around the curvature of the earth.
It was on December
12 2001 the world saluted the man who changed the way we communicate
forever.
See
our special Marconi photographs which celebrates the centenary.
The new centre
started as a dream 18 months ago. Read
our feature on how the Marconi centre was born.
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