History - Wireless and Telegram
1895 - Guggielmo Marconi made first wireless
1899 - Marconi set up wireless station to
communicate from England to France (50 km over
the English Channel). Marconi Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company formed.
1900 - Radiotelephone developed by Reginald A. Fessenden demonstrated in December at Cob Point, Maryland.
1901 - Marconi made successful wireless transmission from Cornwall to St. Johns, Newfoundland, 3,200 km away (compare with mean radius of Earth = 6371 km).
1907 - all large ocean liners used Marconi equipment that allowed them to communicate in Morse code. When the Titanic struck an iceberg it radioed the Carpathia, 933 km away, and 705 people were saved.
1909 - Marconi awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.