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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.
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 ...
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]
New Brunswick Marconi Station, in Somerset, New Jersey, opened in 1914, and used by the U.S. Navy as station NFF from 1917 to 1918 Marconi and Marconi Wireless Station National Historic Sites , 2 sites on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
The Marconi Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company founded by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 which was a pioneer of wireless long distance communication and mass media broadcasting, eventually becoming one of the UK's most successful manufacturing companies.
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.
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Ground was broken for the site on April 9, 1913, by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. [2] Although the station was completed in 1914 [3] Marconi's planned commercial use for communication with his receiver station in Tywyn, Wales never took place because of the onset of World War I but was finally initiated by RCA on March 1, 1920.