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Date: 20 May 91 16:28:35 GMT
From: Wm Randolph Franklin <wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu>
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Subject: Re: Transatlantic Calling History
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In article <telecom11.373.1@eecs.nwu.edu> 0004133373@mcimail.com 
(Donald E. Kimberlin) writes:

>        Radio was an infant (with some historical roots to the late
> 1890's in British Naval history) when Marconi succeeded in passing a
> telegraphic message across the Atlantic in 1901.

 ... and the next day the company with the government-authorized
monopoly on transatlantic communications between the UK and Newfieland
tried to have him legally stopped for violating their monopoly.

No joke.


Wm. Randolph Franklin
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