DOTS THAT MADE HISTORY
A tableau of the tense scene on Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 25 years ago, when the first wireless message was sent between England and America, was set up at Olympia during the Radio Exhibition. With it was Mr Kemp, one of Mr (now Senafore) Marconi’s assistants, who heard the first three dots (S in the Morse code) of the historic message. It was on December 12th. 1901, that they listened there for the expected sign a s from Cornwall. A sharp click of the tapper gave the excited men the first warning. Then, faintly but unmistakably, came the signals. Trans-Atlantia wireless bad censed to be a dream.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12604, 15 November 1926, Page 12
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112DOTS THAT MADE HISTORY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12604, 15 November 1926, Page 12
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