On Dec. 12, 1901, the wind whistled and pinged through the old Newfoundland hospital unimpeded by the stucco walls. Twenty-seven years old Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) hunched his narrow shoulders but would not be distracted from the task at hand; to send the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean. The current world record for radio signals was eighty miles. Marconi’s feat, should he succeed, would be over 2,000 miles from St. Johns, Newfoundland to Cornwall, England. ....