The Wireless Conquers the Sky

By Malene Iwersen

01. Nov. 2005

At the end of the 19th century wireless radio contact became reality when Guglielmo Marconi succeeded in establishing radio connection across the English Channel. In the early 20th century many of the big passenger ships were fitted with radiotelegraphy equipment. And when the zeppelins conquered the sky as a hovering symbol of progress they, too, were fitted with radio equipment.

 

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