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Marconi's Wireless Leap Across the Atlantic
The article recounts William Marconi's journey from studying electricity on his father’s Italian estate to receiving a wireless message from Cornwall in Newfoundland. It covers his initial experiments, support from Sir William Preece, and rapid development of the system, including the English channel link to France, the adoption by the British navy, and the basic Marconi apparatus using Hertzian waves, coherers, and a 150 foot mast.
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Italy
Atlantic
William Marconi
Marconi
St. John's
Newfoundland
Poldhu
Cornwall
England
London
Preece
British Postal Service
Salisbury
Prince of Wales
France
Geuth Foreland
Boulogne
Herz
Bologna
English Channel
Columbia
Shamrock 1
Sandy Hook
United States
South Africa
Transvaal
Oliver Lodge
Liverpool
Calzeccchi