Guglielmo Marconi Prima trasmissione transoceanica 1901
December 1901: Guglielmo Marconi (1874 – 1937), the Italian physicist and inventor and his assistant, receiving the first transatlantic message by wireless telegraphy, at Signal Hill, Newfoundland. Drawn by J Nash from a sketch from life. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA