Modern Era · North America · Technology
1901
Marconi sends signal across Atlantic
December 12, 1901
On a wind-whipped Newfoundland hill, Guglielmo Marconi pressed a telephone receiver to his ear and heard three faint clicks sent from Cornwall, two thousand miles away. Experts had said radio waves would travel in straight lines and miss the curving earth. They were wrong. The world had begun to shrink.
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Also in 1901 (4 other events on record)
- Queen Victoria dies at Osborne · Europe · Politics
- Anarchist shoots President McKinley · North America · Politics
- Australia becomes a commonwealth · Oceania · Politics
- First Nobel Prizes awarded · Europe · Science
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.