_Our World Communications System
Began with Marconi’s Triumph
On a Lonely Ocean Bluff_
How many Americans know that our world radio system was given birth on
Cape Cod?
Guglielmo Marconi achieved his great goal on the oceanside of South
Wellfleet, out near the end of the Cape. Here, on the Sabbath night
of January 19, 1903, he got through the first trans-Atlantic wireless
telegraph message. Modern radio developed from that beginning.
The overseas wireless message was a greeting from President Theodore
Roosevelt to King Edward. It read: