Location where Marconi sent the 1st transatlantic wireless signal @ Table Head, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia ![]() Actual equipment used by Marconi on 15-Dec-1902 to transmit the 1st transatlantic wireless signal ![]() Volunteer radio operator Jim Charlong (personal call sign: VE1 ALZ, frequency 14.002 hz - on low end of morse code band) ![]() ![]() Concrete pad of one of the four 200-foot transmission towers used to transmit Marconi's 15-Dec-1902 signal. This was one of four towers, each 200 feet apart from each other ![]() ![]() Marconi had previously RECEIVED the 1st transatlantic wireless signal at Signal Hill, Newfoundland (12-Dec-1901). Why didn't he SEND the 1st transatlantic wireless signal from the same location? Prior to 1901, Morse Code was being sent across the Atlantic Ocean for 16 years through an undersea cable. It was a very prosperous venture, and the patent for the Morse telegraph didn't anticipate use of wireless communication. At that time, Newfoundland was not a part of Canada, and Marconi feared patent litigation. The Canadian government, led by Sir Wilfred Laurier, saw an opportunity for wireless communications and gave Marconi $80,000 to setup a station at Table Head, Nova Scotia - where Marconi had the use of miners from the local mining town to build his four transmission towers. Dead Ringer: A disconnected telephone - Daffynitions joe-ks.com If the phone doesn't ring it's me. - Jimmy Buffett A roof stretching over the Atlantic Ocean. - Ernest Bevin I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do. - Mark Zuckerberg Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten I put my phone in airplane mode, but it's not flying. - Unknown The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. - Clifford Stoll The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? - James Thurber If it’s the Psychic Network, why do they need a phone number? - Robin Williams Quarterback: What you'll never get if you misdial from a pay phone - Daffynitions joe-ks.com The 3 fastest means of communication: Twitter; Telephone; Tell a woman. - Unknown Most of life's great moments happen when your phone is in your pocket. - Unknown Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. - Unknown Life is like looking for your phone. Most of the time it's in your hand. - Unknown No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it. - Dave Chappelle Warm Water Theorem: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings - Daffynitions joe-ks.com The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw My wife likes to talk on the phone during sex. She called me from Chicago last night. - Rodney Dangerfield I want to be the reason you look down at your phone and smile. Then walk into a pole. - Unknown Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions. - Steve Breen People are prisoners of their phones; that's why it's called a 'cell' phone. - Unknown E-mails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. - Anna Quindlen The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook. - Mark Zuckerberg My cell phone is acting up - I keep pressing the home button but when I look around, I'm still at work. - Unknown Xylophone: Revolutionary communication device that turns the sounds of the voice into a mellow, musical chime - Daffynitions joe-ks.com I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. - Donald Trump I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way. - Donald Trump The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden Nash The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry Silent Disco: A disco in which all the participants wear wireless headphones to hear the music, thus eliminating noise pollution - Daffynitions joe-ks.com The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. - Harold S Geneen Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a 'nervous system', to coordinate its actions. - Bill Gates From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. - Arthur Conan Doyle She's so fat she's my two best friends. She wears stretch caftans. She's got more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. - Joan Rivers If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? - Stephen Levine Hypothesis: 1. First thing a Redneck teenager says to his father on the phone; 2. Hippo, horse; thesis, placing: putting something on a horse. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown see also Canada, History & Telephone Sections |
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