{"id":1383,"date":"2026-12-12T00:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-12-12T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:31:40","slug":"first-radio-transmission-across-the-atlantic-happened-in-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"First Radio Transmission across the Atlantic Happened in 1901"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Guglielmo Marconi sent the first transoceanic radio signal from England to Newfoundland (2,200 miles) in 1901<\/strong>. He flew a kite 500 feet in the air to keep his antenna up and used Morse Code to transmit \u201cs,\u201d which is &#8220;- &#8211; -.&#8221; He, along with Ferdinand Braun, received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.loc.gov\/chronicling-america-guglielmo-marconi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marconi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guglielmo Marconi sent the first transoceanic radio signal from England to Newfoundland (2,200 miles) in 1901. He flew a kite 500 feet in the air to keep his antenna up and used Morse Code to transmit \u201cs,\u201d which is &#8220;- &#8211; -.&#8221; He, along with Ferdinand Braun, received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. Older <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1383' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4498,61,237,4497,2717,1409],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4498","tag-december-12","tag-england","tag-first-transoceanic-radio-signal","tag-guglielmo-marconi","tag-newfoundland","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28783,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/28783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}