Many were not ready to believe that Marconi had transmitted a wireless message all the way across the Atlantic. Alexander Graham Bell, the man who had electrified the human voice and put it on wires in 1876 said, "I doubt Marconi did that. It’s an impossibility." The statement of Bell seems skeptical because, if it was true, nobody would go for expensive transatlantic cables that had already been laid across the ocean floor by Bell’s colleagues of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. But Thomas Alva Edison always admired Marconi and was generous in his judgment when he heard about the invention. "I am astonished, I would like to meet this young man who had the monumental audacity to attempt and to succeed in jumping an electric wave clear across the Atlantic Ocean." Unlike Bell, Edison had full faith in Marconi’s statement about wireless. So when a reporter asked him his views on Marconi’s statement, Edison said – "Huh ? What paper you with, young man ? If Marconi says it’s true, its True."

From his early childhood, since he read about Benjamin Franklin, Marconi was only interested in Wireless Telegraphy. All his energies were directed upon it and for that, he had crossed the ocean 89 times. His storyis not from rags to

One aspect of Marconi being interesting was that he had none of the eccentricities of a genius. He became great not through special training nor because he was a talented person, but because he had a good 'original' idea and stuck to it. And the idea according to Marconi, was so simple that he often said, "It was unbelievable to me that no one had thought of it before."