Heritage Minutes: Marconi

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Heritage Minutes: Marconi

1993

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Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Chuck Herriott

Marconi

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Ron Hynes

Paget

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Rick Boland

Kemp

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Louise Stoodley

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Jamie Ash

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Caroline Mason

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Mathew Mason

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Riley Fitzgerald

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