360What happened in 1899?
2 moments from 1899 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 27 March 1899
Marconi sends a radio message across the English Channel
On 27 March 1899, Guglielmo Marconi sent the first wireless message across the English Channel, from Wimereux in France to South Foreland in England, about 50 km. Less than three years later, he received a signal across the Atlantic.
- On this day · 29 April 1899
An electric car becomes the first to pass 100 km/h
On 29 April 1899, near Paris, the Belgian driver Camille Jenatzy reached 105.88 km/h in La Jamais Contente, a bullet-shaped electric car. It was the first road vehicle to go faster than 100 km/h, more than a century before today's electric cars.