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The New Brunswick Naval Radio Station was the principal wartime communication link between the United States and Europe, using the callsign NFF. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted by NFF in 1918. Ownership of the station, along with Marconi's other US stations, were transferred from the Navy to RCA in 1920.
Marconi is a station on line B of the Rome Metro. It is located at the point where the via Ostiense passes under the viale Guglielmo Marconi, after which it is named. Its exits are located on viale Marconi and via Ostiense. Before it opened, there was a "EUR Marconi" station, now renamed "EUR Palasport".
Despite its name, Line B was the first metro line in Rome. The line was planned during the 1930s by the Fascist government in search of a rapid connection between the main train station, Termini, and a new district to the south-east of the city, E42, the planned location of the Universal Exposition (or Expo), which was to be held in Rome in 1942.
In addition to the Metro, the center of Rome and its urban area are served by 8 FL lines (672 km (417.5 mi) with 131 stations) that surround Rome and the Lazio region, [5] 6 tram lines (36 km (22 mi) ) with 192 stations), [6] 3 commuter urban lines (135 km (83.8 mi) with 57 stations), as well as the Leonardo Express which connects Roma Termini ...
Light rail service began on March 12, 1987, with the opening of 13 stations between Watt/I-80 and 8th & O. [1] The second phase of the initial line opened on September 5, 1987, with 13 stations between Archives Plaza and Butterfield. [2] In 1994, a pair of infill stations opened at 39th Street and 48th Street. [8]
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/Arcade station is a Sacramento RT light rail station in Sacramento, California, United States. It is located in the Arden-Arcade neighborhood near the Marconi Avenue arterial. The station was opened on March 12, 1987, and is operated by the Sacramento Regional Transit District as part of the Blue Line .
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 ...