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| December 12th | Marconi's trans-Atlantic transmission (1901) |
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That Guglielmo Marconi (pictured above left) conducted the first trans-Atlantic radio communication is well known but it is often believed that the message was sent from his Poldhu Cove station. That is incorrect; it was received at Poldhu from the station in Newfoundland and simply comprised the letter ‘S’ in Morse code. The radio stations at both sites were stunning engineering achievements as demonstrated by the picture (above) showing the aerials towering above the multi-storied Poldhu Cove Hotel. This picture is also fascinating since, in the bottom right of this picture, the, subsequently removed, cliff railway used to raise the rocks for the construction of the hotel can just be seen. At this time, Marconi resided at the Housel Bay Hotel which was designed by Silvanus Trevail (November 7th). On news of Marconi's death in 1937, all British Broadcasting Company stations offered a two minute silence in tribute to his development of radio.
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