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What Happened On This Day In Monmouth County History?

Photo of Marconi inset, and his first transmitter incorporating a monopole antenna. It consisted of an elevated copper sheet (top) connected to a Righi spark gap (left) powered by an induction coil (center) with a telegraph key (right) to switch it on and off to spell out text messages in Morse code. Image credit: Guglielmo Marconi, Looking back over thirty years of radio, Radio Broadcast magazine, Doubleday, Page, and Co., New York, Vol. 10, No. 1, November 1926, p. 31. Public domain.
September 30, 1899

Guglielmo Marconi Demonstrates Wireless Telegraph in the U.S.

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian physicist and inventor of wireless telegraph. In 1909 he received the Nobel Prize for physics, shared with Ferdinand Braun. On September 30, 1899, Marconi first utilized his wireless telegraph technology in the U.S., following successful...
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