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# Guglielmo Marconi at Newgate Street Standing on Newgate Street on that historic summer day of 27 July 1896, Guglielmo Marconi achieved what many had thought impossible—he transmitted wireless signals in public for the first time, proving to skeptics and journalists alike that his revolutionary te...

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From this site Guglielmo Marconi made the first public transmission of wireless signals on 27 July 1896