FILE - Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi reads signals on a tape recorder, left, with a spark coil used for ship-to-shore radio tests in this 1901 photo. A group of scientists are conducting tests that could debunk Marconi’s historic claim that he received the first wireless transatlantic message in Newfoundland more than a century ago. Skeptics say the Italian inventor, dubbed the father of radio after stating he had achieved the technological milestone on Dec. 12, 1901, probably heard static or lightning storms instead of a telegraph signal from Poldhu, England. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/AP)