WHAT:
Transatlantic Wireless Message
WHERE:
Transmitted 2,137miles (3,440km) from Poldhu, Cornwall, UK.
Received at Signal Hill, St Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
LOCATION:
WHEN:
12th December 1901
WHO:
Guglielmo Marconi
DETAILS:
Home to a monumental world first in global communications, the Marconi Centre at Poldhu on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall remains an active radio hub and visitor centre celebrating wireless pioneer Guglielmo Marconi. It was from this site in 1901 that his team achieved the world’s first transatlantic radio transmission, sending three Morse code dots for the letter S over 2,000 miles across the ocean to Signal Hill in Newfoundland, Canada. To mark the 125th anniversary of this historic breakthrough, Lord Robert Teverson and Poldhu Amateur Radio Club president Carolyn Rule unveiled a World Origin Site .Org plaque. Event organiser and club chairman Neil Whitham then recreated the world-changing moment by speaking live over the airwaves to participants in St. Johns, Canada.
LINKS:
Plaque Unveiled at the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall – October 2026
The Marconi Centre on the Lizard Peninsula at Poldhu in Cornwall UK remains an active radio hub and visitor centre marking the work carried out by the wireless pioneer Guglielmo Marconi. Here in 1901 his team repeatedly sent three morse code dots (the letter S) across the Atlantic Ocean to be heard by Marconi himself at Signal Hill in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, over 2000 miles beyond the horizon. To mark the 125th anniversary Lord Robert Teverson and Carolyn Rule, president of the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club, unveiled the World Origin Site .Org plaque. Event organiser and chairman of the club Neil Whitham spoke live by radio to participants of the event in St. Johns, Canada recreating this truly world changing transatlantic moment.
