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First Moments in Radio

NPR
Published December 8, 2001 at 10:00 PM MST

This week marks 100 years since Guglielmo Marconi's first trans-Atlantic broadcast from Newfoundland to Cornwall, England. Lisa joins NPR's Joe Palca for a little experiment to remember the first dit-dit-dit's of Morse Code sent as electro-magnetic waves crossed the ocean.

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