Highly desirable AQS on an off-white 5 x 8 sheet of Department of Marine and Fisheries, Deputy Minister’s Office (Ottawa, Canada) stationery, signed at the conclusion in fountain pen, “Guglielmo Marconi, Ottawa, 4th Jan. 1901.” The quote, in full: “My aim is to bring people closer together throughout the world.” Handsomely cloth-matted and framed with a portrait and an engraved plate to an overall size of 22.5 x 22. In fine condition.
On December 12, 1901, Marconi succeeded in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean, disproving detractors who told him that the curvature of the earth would limit transmission to 200 miles or less. The message-simply the Morse-code signal for the letter ‘s’-traveled more than 2,000 miles from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada.
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