I love radio. I listen to AM radio every morning, had a college radio show for a few years and I even built a radio that totally sorta works.
I also happen to live in St. John's, Newfoundland where Nobel Prize winner and inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, received the first transatlantic wireless signal, proving that wireless communication was possible. Often credited at the inventor of radio, it seems fitting to share a few pictures of Marconi and his assistants setting up to receive that groundbreaking signal.
Happy World Radio Day Everyone!
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| Marconi sits in the operations room he used in an old hospital on Signal Hill, December 1901. Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives; A66-145 |
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| Marconi assistants stand outside Cabot Tower, St. John's, NL., 1901 Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives; B1-97 |
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| Cranky old Mr. Edison called FAKE NEWS on Marconi. Of course! |
