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Uses a spark generator to send voice the distance of about one mile. Marconi installs first commercial radio service off coast of Ireland.

Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in signaling a distance of about 1.2 miles. Mahlon Loomis is granted the first patent for "wireless" communication.
