Guglielmo Marconi and his assistant, George Kemp, confirmed the reception of the first transatlantic radio signals on December 12, 1901, from their test site in St. John, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
With a telephone receiver and a wire antenna kept aloft by a kite, they heard Morse code for the letter "S" transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall, England. Their experiments showed that radio signals extended far beyond the horizon, giving radio a new global dimension for communication in the twentieth century. More
