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Marconi Beach. Marconi Beach is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.The beach is named for Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi.In 1903, the first transatlantic wireless communication originating in the United States was successfully transmitted from nearby Marconi Station; a message from U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. [1]
At this location, now part of the Cape Cod National Seashore (though no admission is charged if not visiting Marconi Beach), inventor Guglielmo Marconi erected a large antenna array on four 210-foot (64 m) wooden towers, and established a transmitting station powered by kerosene engines that produced the 25,000 volts of electricity needed to ...
National Park Service map "The Penniman House: A Whaling Story". A National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan. Portnoy, J. W. et al., Kettle Pond Data Atlas for Cape Cod National Seashore: Paleoecology and Modern Water Chemistry Archived 2018-06-23 at the Wayback Machine April 2001, 118 pp., Retrieved June 23, 2018.
Marconi Beach in Wellfleet and Nauset Light Beach in Eastham were closed from July 31 until Aug. 3. Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro and Nauset Light Beach were closed Aug. 21 and reopened Aug. 23.
A model of Marconi's transmission towers at his first wireless station in Glace Bay. Marconi National Historic Site, located at Table Head in Glace Bay, is the site of Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station, callsign VAS, and the first wireless message sent from North America to Europe on December 15, 1902. [1]
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The CCRT enters Wellfleet near mile 19. Sparse residential development lies west of the trail, while the east side of the trail is fronted by a power line right-of-way, with undeveloped National Seashore land beyond that. North of mile 21, the trail intersects Marconi Beach Road, which leads to Marconi Beach and the Marconi Station site. Sparse ...
The Marconi–RCA Wireless Receiving Station is a historic district at the junction of Old Comers Rd. and Orleans Rd. in Chatham, Massachusetts. It and its companion transmitter station at Marion were used for WCC , the busiest ship to shore radio station for most of the 20th century.