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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 is on the ocean side of Cape Cod, about a 20-mile drive south from Provincetown. Leak from once buried Cold War site shuts down more Outer Banks beach, NC park says Castle emerges ...
The United States has 63 national parks, which are congressionally designated protected areas operated by the National Park Service, an agency of the Department of the Interior. [1] National parks are designated for their natural beauty, unique geological features, diverse ecosystems, and recreational opportunities, typically "because of some ...
This National Park Service archive photo shows a landing strip near the Wellfleet/Eastham town line that was used to launch aircraft carrying drone planes for artillery training at the former Camp ...
A Marconi station built in 1902 at South Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (initial callsign CC, MCC 1908 to 1911, finally WCC from 1911,) transmitted its first telegraphic message via spark gap transmitter in 1903 from what is now known as the National Park Service "Marconi Area," about a mile north of the entrance to Marconi Beach.
National seashores are located in ten states and national lakeshores are in two other states. Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan each have two. The largest national seashore or lakeshore is Gulf Islands, at over 137,000 acres (550 km 2); the smallest is Fire Island, at 19,579 acres (79.23 km 2).