The Marconi Company was a British
telecommunications and engineering company that existed from 1897 until 2006,
undergoing numerous changes, mergers and acquisitions during that time. The
company was founded by the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi and was
originally known as The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company. The company
was a pioneer of wireless long distance communication and mass media
broadcasting, eventually becoming one of the UKs most successful manufacturing
companies.
Marconi's "Wireless
Telegraph and Signal Company" was formed on 20 July 1897 after the
granting of a British patent for wireless in March of that year. The company
opened the world's first radio factory on Hall Street in Chelmsford in 1898 and was
responsible for some of the most important advances in radio and television.
At the turn of the 20th century,
Marconi began investigating the means to signal completely across the Atlantic,
in order to compete with the transatlantic
telegraph cables. Marconi established a wireless transmitting
station at Marconi House, Rosslare Strand, Co. Wexford in 1901 to act as a link
between Poldhu in Cornwall and Clifden
in Co. Galway. He soon made the announcement that on 12 December 1901, using a
152.4-metre (500 ft) kite-supported antenna for reception, the message was
received at Signal Hill
in St John's,
Newfoundland
(now part of Canada) signals transmitted by the company's new high-power
station at Poldhu,
Cornwall. The distance
between the two points was about 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi).
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