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Educated in physics at the technical school in Leghorn, Marconi had, by the age of 20, become very interested in the works of Heinrich Herz, who had discovered and first produced radio waves in Marconi was convinced that communication among people was possible via wireless radio signaling. Marconi traveled to England in to seek a patent for his apparatus.

One was granted to him that year — the first patent ever granted for a system of wireless telegraphy.

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A year later, he received a patent for "tuned or syntonic telegraphy. Adjacent stations were now able to operate without interfering with one another, and ranges were increased. In December of , he proved the skeptics wrong when he successfully transmitted wireless waves across the Atlantic Ocean, between Poldhu, Cornwall and St.

This distance of miles disproved the widely held theory that the curvature of the earth would prevent the waves from reaching their destination. In , Marconi patented a magnetic detector, which became the standard wireless receiver for years to come. In , he patented the horizontal directional aerial. Marconi had hoped from the beginning that the system would end their isolation and give them a way to call for help.

The first incident that demonstrated this potential came in when a vessel rammed by a steamship in heavy fog used the system to call for a lifeboat.