Marconi Wireless Station Site
- Vicinity: Town of Wellfleet
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1901/00/00 | Guglielmo Marconi | Inventor | Marconi begins building a wireless station 165 feet (50 m) from the shore. | Invention of Wireless Communications | ||
1903/01/18 | Edward VII of England | King of England | President Theodore Roosevelt sends a wireless massage to King Edward VII. | |||
1903/01/18 | Theodore Roosevelt | President Theodore Roosevelt sends a wireless massage to King Edward VII. | ||||
1904/00/00 | Carl Taylor | Architect | South Wellfleet station begins operating a commercial service communicating with ships at sea | |||
1917/00/00 | South Wellfleet station closes |
Particulars for Marconi Wireless Station Site: | |
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Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Area of Significance | Communications |
Historic Use | Communications facility |
Area of Significance | Engineering |
Criteria | Exemplar |
Owner | Federal |
Area of Significance | Invention |
Area of Significance | Military |
Level of Significance | National |
Criteria | Person |
Area of Significance | Science |
Sight Category | Site |
Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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Thunderstruck (book) | Book | Erik Larson |
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