History of radio upon the idea of grounding his transmitter and receiver. With these improvements the system was capable of transmitting signals up to and over hills. Marconi's experimental apparatus proved to be the first engineering-complete, commercially successful radio transmission system. Marconi's apparatus is also credited with saving the 700 people who survived the tragic "Titanic" disaster. In 1896, Marconi was awarded British patent 12039, "Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and signals and in apparatus there-for", the first patent ever issued for a Hertzian wave (radio wave) base wireless telegraphic system. In 1897, he established a radio station on the Isle of Wight,
Norddeich radio station it began to broadcast a time signal along with the broadcast tower on the Eiffel Tower. As technology improved it was involved in a number of record-breaking transmissions including the 1912 record-breaking distance of a wireless transmission of . During World War I it was used to signal German naval vessels. In 1925, three of its masts collapsed. Norddeich radio station Norddeich station was a wireless radio station built in 1910 in Norddeich, Germany. The station was originally going to set up on the Island of Borkum but in the end Norddeich was chosen. Standing at high, the antenna tower