...and who's this guy?
On top of the cliff (behind this sail) is the spot where in 1901 this Italian guy turned up with a trunk full of wires and gadgets.
Nice hat, eh?
He used a kite to to get up his antenna and...
This is the Outer Battery, St.John's. Our studio is the tall little place at the bottom of the cliff there.
Sorry about the seagulls.
We made a feature about all this a few years ago. To hear it, click on the fat seagull (if you can catch him)
...said he received the world's first trans-Atlantic wireless message up on the cliff . Very cool. Except the wire telegraph companies figured Marconi was bad for business and ran him out of town. Guess who had the last laugh.