Early Experiments

Marconi's goal was to create a way of wireless telegraphy. Marconi's system contained:
-a radio transmitter, kind of like the one Heinrich Hertz used.
-A wire above the ground
-a coherer reciever. coherer = radio signal detector
-telegraph key, which sent Morse code
-telegraph register, which printed Morse code onto roll of paper
At first, Marconi could only signal little distances, but soon he could send signals over a hill. On 13 May 1897, Marconi sent the first ever wireless communication over water. The message read: "Are you ready."