Marconi Wireless Station Site
| Marconi Wireless Station Site | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 Marconi site: information board |
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| location | Wellfleet , Massachusetts | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 54 '50 " N , 69 ° 58' 20" W | ||
| Built | 1901 | ||
| NRHP number | 75000158 | ||
| The NRHP added | May 2nd 1975 | ||
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The Marconi Wireless Station Site is a historic telegraph station in the US state of Massachusetts . It is located on the edge of Wellfleet on a cliff on the coast of the Cape Cod peninsula , in Barnstable County and is now part of Cape Cod National Seashore . Guglielmo Marconi built the station from 1901 for his experiments with telegraph connections across the Atlantic Ocean . It consisted of four 64 m high towers, between which the antenna was stretched, and several buildings in which a generator and a Tesla coil were operated to generate the transmission energy.
Marconi received the first transatlantic message from his transmitter in Poldhu , Cornwall , in December 1901 in Signal Hill , Canada , near St. John's , Newfoundland . A year later, on December 17, 1902, he was able to transmit the first transatlantic test messages between his station in Glace Bay , Nova Scotia, and that in Poldhu. On January 18, 1903, Marconi exchanged the first public messages across the Atlantic via Wellfleet Station in Cape Cod: greetings between US President Theodore Roosevelt and the King of England Edward VII. The facility was taken over by the US Army and was up In operation in 1917 and the transmission towers demolished in 1920. On May 2, 1975, it was listed under number 75000158 on the National Register of Historic Places .
Until the summer of 2013 there was a kiosk with information boards on the dune, for example at the former location of the antenna system. It was demolished because the ongoing erosion of the coast threatened its location. New information boards are to be erected off the coast at a nearby car park.
Web links
- National Park Service: Cape Cod National Seashore - Marconi and his South Wellfleet Wireless (PDF; 621 kB) .
- Marconi Wireless Station Site in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
Individual evidence
- ^ National Park Service: Cape Cod National Seashore - Marconi and the South Wellfleet Wireless
- ↑ NRIS