On This Day in Telephone History December 12TH 1901 At Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland, Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal with a telephone receiver and a wire antenna kept aloft by a kite. Morse code for the letter "S" was transmitted approximately 2100 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Poldhu, Cornwall, England. The first radio message was sent a year later.

On This Day in Telephone History December 12TH 1901

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On This Day in Telephone History December 12TH 1901 at Signal Hill in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Guglielmo Marconi received the First Transatlantic Radio Signal with a Telephone Receiver and a wire antenna kept aloft by a kite. Morse code for the letter “S” was transmitted approximately 2100 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Poldhu, Cornwall, England. The first radio message was sent a year later.