100 years radio - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1995 - 100 Pfennig

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary, the special postage stamp commemorates the first attempts to wirelessly transmit radio waves. Numerous contributions by researchers and scientists, which had preceded the work of the Italian Guglielmo Marconi, led to the emergence of the radio. In the spring of 1895, the first transmission attempts were made by Marconi in Pontecchio (now Pontecchio Marconi) near Bologna; they ended in St. John's, Newfoundland, in December 1901, when Marconi listened to the three radio discharges from his headset in Poldhu, Cornwall, 4,000 kilometers away. This outstanding event in the history of communications has been a landmark in the establishment of public broadcasters around the world. The Italian engineer and physicist Guglielmo Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 for his pioneering work in wireless messaging.