Wiener as Marconi
Jun 10, 1995
Description:
In this collaborative video, Bobbi Kozinuk and Elizabeth Vander Zaag recreated the world’s first transatlantic radio signal achieved in 1901 by inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi. By raising a 150-metre-long antenna attached to a kite at Signal Hill in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Macaroni was able to receive the Morse code signal for the letter “s”—an achievement that became critical to the birth of radio.
Video documentation is available upon request.
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