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".

I was on Signal Hill, a massive piece of bedrock about 140m above the Atlantic Ocean on Canada’s eastern shore. It’s a dramatic spot where the ocean merges into St John’s Harbour, creating a ...

Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - 1937. Guglielmo ... and it installed Marconi's radio equipment in some of its ships. ... Marconi had sent a signal nine miles across the Bristol Channel and 31 miles ...

Marconi came back to Signal Hill in 1920 to test a long-range transmitter that could send out the human voice. This time, the signal reached a ship, the SS Victorian, that was sailing from England.

Marconi and his assistants travelled by sea to Canada where they set up their equipment on nearby Signal Hill. They used kites and balloons to try to hold up the aerial wires in the wind off the ocean ...

On Dec. 12, 1986, Marconi amazed a London assemblage with wireless communication across a room. ... to Marconi at Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland, at 4:30 a.m. GMT on Dec. 12, 1901.

Marconi, the telecoms equipment supplier, is expected to add to the gloom surrounding its sector when it issues a trading statement within the next week, writes Heather Connon.

But by 1912 when Titanic sailed, there was another, competing distress signal on the scene: “SOS.” There’s a common misnomer that the distress call is short for “Save Our Ship” or ...

It was 100 years ago that the first trans-Atlantic wireless signal was sent and received. Many believe Guglielmo Marconi was the pioneer of wireless, bringing all parts of the world together.