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Marconi Station Sunrise

Sunrise seen from the Marconi Station Site, in Wellfleet Cape Cod MA.

The Marconi Wireless Station Site in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts is the site of the first transatlantic wireless communication between the United States and Europe. At this location, now in the Cape Cod National Seashore, inventor Guglielmo Marconi erected a large antenna array on four 210-foot wooden towers, and established a transmitting station powered by kerosene engines that produced the 25,000 volts of electricity needed to send signals to a similar

 

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Uploaded on July 23, 2016
Taken on July 19, 2016