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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]
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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 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.