From a sandy beach in my home state of Massachusetts, Guglielmo Marconimade the world’s first transatlantic broadcast in 1901, sending a few grainy dots and dashes to the British Isles. In a decisive moment, he connected the world in a way it had never been connected before—and he did it with sound.
Marconi’s invention shaped my life. At age 12, I was making improvised radio shows with my best friend using a toy electronics kit. Years later, I was collecting oral histories as a college student in rural Ohio, and coaxing broken studio equipment back to life at our school’s 15-watt radio station. As an adult, I got my professional start working for a few different NPR programs around the country. Radio and tinkering were my two first loves, and VivaMarconi is a tribute to their roots.
Why VivaMarconi?
From a sandy beach in my home state of Massachusetts, Guglielmo Marconi made the world’s first transatlantic broadcast in 1901, sending a few grainy dots and dashes to the British Isles. In a decisive moment, he connected the world in a way it had never been connected before—and he did it with sound.
Marconi’s invention shaped my life. At age 12, I was making improvised radio shows with my best friend using a toy electronics kit. Years later, I was collecting oral histories as a college student in rural Ohio, and coaxing broken studio equipment back to life at our school’s 15-watt radio station. As an adult, I got my professional start working for a few different NPR programs around the country. Radio and tinkering were my two first loves, and VivaMarconi is a tribute to their roots.