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Cabot Tower Stamp

A fourteen-cent Newfoundland postage stamp depicting the Cabot Tower on Signal Hill at St. John's, Newfoundland. The accompanying caption states, First Trans Atlantic Wireless Signal Received 1901.

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In 1901, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi successfully sent a signal from Britain to Signal Hill in Newfoundland. This postage stamp from Cabot Tower, Signal Hill, St. John’s commemorates the first transatlantic wireless signal received.