 On January 23rd, 1901, a distinguished group of sponsors and enthusiasts gathered at Housel Bay to celebrate the centenary of the first wireless transmission "over the horizon". In a Press Release dated January 9th, 2001, the National Trust describe this historic event as one of the greatest achievements in communications history. At a small hut some two hundred metres from Housel Bay Hotel, Marconi received a wireless signal from the Isle of Wight, a distance of 196 miles. Some nine months after Marconi's triumph at Housel Bay, he sent the first transatlantic signal from nearby Poldhu to Newfoundland in Canada.
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