Editing History of radio (section)

===Nautical and transatlantic transmissions===
In 1897, Marconi established a radio station on the [[Isle of Wight]], England and opened his "wireless" factory in the former [[silk]]-works at Hall Street, [[Chelmsford]], England, in 1898, employing around 60 people.

On 12 December 1901, using a {{convert|500|ft|m|adj=on}} kite-supported antenna for reception—signals transmitted by the company's new high-power station at [[Poldhu]], Cornwall, Marconi transmitted a message across the Atlantic Ocean to [[Signal Hill (Newfoundland and Labrador)|Signal Hill]] in [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]].<ref name=KIT>{{cite web|url=https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2011_8434.php|title=125 Years Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves|publisher=[[Karlsruhe Institute of Technology]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=May 16, 2022|accessdate=July 14, 2022|archivedate=July 14, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714163329/https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2011_8434.php}}</ref><ref name="ieeexplore.ieee.org">Bondyopadhyay, Prebir K.  (1995) "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4137304/?tp=&arnumber=4137304 Guglielmo Marconi – The father of long distance radio communication – An engineer's tribute"], ''25th European Microwave Conference: Volume 2'', pp. 879–85</ref><ref name="1890s – 1930s: Radio">{{cite web|url=https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/time-capsule/150-years/back-1890-1930/|title=1890s – 1930s: Radio|publisher=[[Elon University]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|accessdate=July 14, 2022|archivedate=June 8, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608035814/https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/time-capsule/150-years/back-1890-1930/}}</ref><ref name="IEEEatlantic">{{Cite web |last=Belrose |first=John S. |date=5–7 September 1995 |title=Radio's First Message – Fessenden and Marconi |url=https://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/millennium/radio/radio_differences.html |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]]}}</ref>

Marconi began to build high-powered stations on both sides of the Atlantic to communicate with ships at sea. In 1904, he established a commercial service to transmit nightly news summaries to subscribing ships, which could incorporate them into their on-board newspapers. A regular transatlantic radio-telegraph service was finally begun on 17 October 1907<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Clifden Station of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph System|journal=Scientific American|date=23 November 1907}}</ref><ref>[http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-sydpost19071024.html Second Test of the Marconi Over-Ocean Wireless System Proved Entirely Successful] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019025942/http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-sydpost19071024.html |date=19 October 2013 }}. ''Sydney Daily Post''. 24 October 1907.</ref> between [[Clifden]], Ireland, and [[Glace Bay]], but even after this the company struggled for many years to provide reliable communication to others.

Marconi's apparatus is also credited with saving the 700 people who survived the tragic ''[[Titanic]]'' disaster.<ref name="A Short History of Radio">[http://transition.fcc.gov/omd/history/radio/documents/short_history.pdf "A Short History of Radio"], Winter 2003–2004  (FCC.gov)</ref>