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Heritage Minutes: Marconi
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Heritage Minutes: Marconi

Apr 30, 1993
0h 1m
★ 0.0

Overview

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Genres

Drama
History

Production Companies

CRB Foundation (CA)

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Cast

Chuck Herriott

Marconi

Chuck Herriott

Ron Hynes

Paget

Ron Hynes

Rick Boland

Kemp

Rick Boland

Louise Stoodley

Child #1

Louise Stoodley

Jamie Ash

Child #2

Jamie Ash

Caroline Mason

Child #3

Caroline Mason

Mathew Mason

Child #4

Mathew Mason

Riley Fitzgerald

Child #5

Riley Fitzgerald