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How far apart were South Foreland in England and Wimereux in France during Marconiās 1899 transmission?
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Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi, shown here about 1908, invented a successful wireless telegraph (that is, a radio) in 1896.
In 1899, Guglielmo Marconi established a wireless station at South Foreland, England, to communicate with a station in Wimereux, France. The distance between these two locations was 50 km (31 miles).1