In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless signal at St. John's, Nfld. The inventor of wireless telegraphy flew a box kite trailing 121 metres of copper wire to a telephone ...
In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...
The aircraft flew in an area to the northeast of the Pratas Islands that is part of the Taiwan's air defence identification zone (ADIZ), according to a map the ministry provided. But the planes ...