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Some of his landmarks achievements are as follows:
1894, Italy – first demonstrated the transmission of ‘wireless’ signals to sound a bell across a room.
1895 – Italy - successfully demonstrated signal transmission and reception over a 2km distance across fields.
1896, England - came to London and registered his patent - demonstrated transmission and reception on Salisbury plain using an aerial developed by the Russian Prof. Alexander Popoff, Captain H. B. Jackson was present along with the chief engineer of the General Post Office and also representatives of the British Army.
1897, England – He achieved a range of 7km transmission and reception on Salisbury Plain - achieved a new record distance of 14km when he send a message across the Bristol Channel from Flat Holm, Weston-super-Mare to Lavernock Point, Cardiff – set up an aerial in the grounds of the Royal Needles Hotel, Alum Bay, Isle of Wight and communicated with two hired ferries and later with another station set up in the Medeira House, Bournmouth – Italy - communicated from La Spezia, Italy with the armoured cruiser ‘San Martino’ a distance of 11 miles - England - with his cousin Jameson Davis he first registered his company as The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company.
1898, Ireland - transmission and reception between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle under commission by Lloyds of London – sent the world’s first live ‘wireless’ report of a yacht race from a ship called ‘The Flying Huntress’ to a shore station at Kingstown (Dublin). This brought immense publicity and interest for Marconi work and its commercial and military potential.
1899, England -The Goodwin Lightship which had been installed with a transmitter was rammed in heavy fog by the S.S. ‘R.F. Mathews’ , it was able to send the first ‘live saving’ signal from sea, for the assistance of two lifeboats.
1901 – Send a signal 198 miles between the Isle of Wight and Lizard Point, Cornwall - defying critics and the opinions of the scientific world he sent a signal around the curvature of the earth, from Poldhu, Cornwall to Signal Hill, St John’s, Newfoundland.
1918 – first signal from England to Australia . These are just a few of the scores of events and achievements during his lifetime - and we have not touched on the greatest aid that his work created for shipping, namely the ability to sent 'wireless' distress signals which led to the saving of hundreds of thousands of lives at sea.
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