10 Odd Things You Probably Didn't Know About the History of Radio

5. Dots a Lot of Dashes!

10 Radio Oddities

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Beginning in 1899, Marconi wireless telegraph operators on ships received the news from land-based operators and prepared shipboard newspapers for crew and passengers.

By 1904, “Regular nightly summary news transmissions by Marconi shore stations followed…” On some ships these newspapers became known as Special Marconigrams.*

(*For more, see: United States Early Radio History by Thomas H White)

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