"It all stared out in around 1890. At that time I became interested in wireless telegraphy, no, I became consumed by the idea of being able to send wireless signals over vast distances. Not an easy thing to do since it hadn't been done before, but I was convinced this could be done."
"My first major achievement allowed me to send a wireless signal from one side of my house to the other. Now that was a great day. Imagine, sending a signal through the air using nothing but invisible radio waves which could not be touched or seen, or heard by human eyes and ears."
"Eventually, I had developed equipment that allowed me to not just send a signal across a room but to a point a few kilometers away. These were such exciting times indeed. From there I patented my equipment, and formed a company called Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., in London."
"By 1895 I had developed equipment which allowed me to send communication across the English Channel between England and France. This was the first time that people living in two separate countries could communicate almost instantaneously through the air."
"What I may be known best for, is sending the first wireless signal across the Atlantic from Signal Hill in St. Johns, Newfoundland to Poldhu, in Cornwall, England on December 12, 1901. Quite an improvement over sending a signal from one side of my house to the other just a few years earlier."
"News of this event traveled quickly and I was even allotted the Nobel Prize for physics in 1909. Soon my discoveries were adopted by the British and Italian navies. By 1907 my equipment had been improved to the point where transatlantic wireless service was established for public use. They even called me the father of wireless radio."
"Today visitors to St. Johns, Newfoundland can still visit the very same spot at Signal Hill where the first transatlantic signal was sent. In fact while you are there you may see some whales or even an iceberg or two from that very place."
