Thank you Marconi!
Do you remember 1895? Well old and all as I appear, and never mind what Elly says, I don’t remember it either. I am sixty and not 112! So what am I going on about?
Guglielmo Marconi an Italian inventor proved the feasibility of radio communication when he sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895.
By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter “S”, telegraphed on 12th December 1901, from England to Newfoundland. The signal was sent via a 160ft/52m aerial in Cornwall, England, and Marconi received it at St John’s, Newfoundland, where they used an even higher aerial kept aloft by a kite. This was the first successful transatlantic radiotelegraph message. At the time the feat was applauded on both sides of the Atlantic.
So today, the 12th December as we phone, text, blog, podcast and Skype to one another across the world, may we not take it for granted but celebrate the life, vision and the work of Guglielmo Marconi!
Conortje said,
December 12, 2007 at 10:10 am
I think he has a lot to answer for too
Sometimes I feel terrorised by my phone…
steph said,
December 12, 2007 at 10:17 am
Thank you, Marconi and Grannymar
“So today, the 12th December as we phone, text, blog, podcast and Skype”
It’s all thanks to ‘Google’ Marconi?
Grannymar said,
December 12, 2007 at 10:51 am
Conor ~ I always feel I must answer the phone by the third ring.
Steph ~ If Marconi came back would he like the way ‘Google’ behaves?
Jefferson Davis » Schools Out! said,
December 12, 2007 at 1:49 pm
[...] Grannymar goes Wireless. [...]
Dorothy Stahlnecker said,
December 12, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Cute site, first time here…I think… The phone, is my enemy..it keeps me from doing what I really want to do.. Now I know who to be mad at..
No really I have three emails….4 voice mails..a cell phone and home phone. I rarely have time to just zone out and at 61..it’s getting harder..
Love your site…
Dorothy from grammology
call gram
http://grammology.com
Nancy said,
December 12, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Grannymar,
I’m not saying I’m old or anything, but not only do I remember Marconi, I think I DATED him !!!!!!
Grannymar said,
December 12, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Welcome Dorothy. Come in and join the gang. We might need you to keep us in order.
Grannymar said,
December 12, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Now Nancy, steady on with the trifle sherry! I think it might have been his son.
chrisb said,
December 12, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Great post and I love all the comments especially Nancy’s!
steph said,
December 12, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Grannymar - I’d like to suggest that you make it a New Year’s resolution to allow the phone ring 4 times (or more) before you answer it.
It was a standing joke in our family the way our mother used to panic whenever the phone rang. Eventually she tripped one day and broke her wrist in her hurry to answer the phone. And to put it in perspective, it was a wrong number
Grannymar said,
December 12, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Steph if I wait for 4 rings I might miss the Toyboys!
steph said,
December 12, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Nora said,
December 13, 2007 at 4:56 pm
My first visit here too but not my last. I am not too fond of the telephone and would not ever have a cell phone because I want to be unreachable! (Probably from seeing five kids through teenagehoodom.)
Nora
Grannymar said,
December 13, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Welcome Nora, I hope you enjoy the fun and comment plenty.