1902

In February, 1902, the SS Philadelphia sailed west from Great Britain with Guglielmo Marconi aboard, carefully recording signals sent daily from the Poldhu station. The test results produced coherer-tape reception up to 2,496 kilometres (1,551 miles), and audio reception up to 3,378 kilometres (2,099 miles).

On 17 December 1902, a transmission from the Marconi station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, became the first radio message to cross the Atlantic in an eastward direction.

Britain and Japan form Anglo-Japanese Alliance.

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