Dies at Age of 63
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He astonished the heads of the General Post Office by telegraphing without wires betwee St. Martin's-lo-Grand and Thameg Embankment. f In 1901 messages rare sent between Cornwall and the Isle of Wight, a distance of 183 miles A few months later Marconi bridged the Atlantic, receiving signals transmitted 2100 miles away from Poldhu, Cornwall, to St. John's, Newfoundland. That transmission, like the first one from the barn to the old farm hand, consisted of the three dots of the letter "S".
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