Fact #56378
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Short story:
In Newfoundland, Canada, Guglielmo Marconi intercepts the first transatlantic signal, the letter "S", transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall, UK.
Full article:
Earlier in the year, inventor Nikola Tesla predicted that, "An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant.
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