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Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), an Italian-born radio pioneer of mixed Italian and Irish ethnicity, who built "marconimasts", flying kite-like antennas, to assist him in making transatlantic radio transmissions. Although his first success was from Signal Hill, Newfoundland (now Canada), his system was adopted early on in Nova Scotia (another Atlantic Canadian provice) for transatlantic radio communication, in order to compete with the transatlantic telegraph cables.

["Wireless Station in Constant Operation", Clipping from the Halifax Morning Chronicle, 24 October 1907, Halifax, Nova Scotia]

[Photograph of Marconi and associates raising the receiving antenna by kite at St. John's, Newfoundland in December, 1901. Appeared in the article "Marconi's Achievement" in the February, 1902 issue of McClure's Magazine.]