1870: Penolver Point or Pen Olver Point, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall England. It was there that Marconi established a coastal site for his wireless experiment by building two huts. sitting in his wireless hut on 23 January 1901, Marconi received a wireless signal from the Isle of Wight, 186 miles away. It was clear to him that radio signals could be "bent" around the curvature of the Earth, although no one at that time knew how.

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