St. Lawrence Church, Lavernock, Penarth, S Wales, Marconi and the birth of radio
(Info from Urban75.org) Situated close to the south Wales coastline betwixt Penarth and Barry is the attractive limestone St. Lawrence Church at Lavernock – small church with an interesting link to radio history.
Attached to the church perimeter wall is a bronze plaque erected by the Cardiff Rotary Club in 1948 to mark 50th anniversary of the first wireless signal being transmitted across open water.
On 13 May, 1897, Italian born Guglielmo Marconi (ably assisted by Cardiff Post Office engineer George Kemp) transmitted the first wireless signal across open water from nearby Lavernock Point to Flat Holm, a distance of 6 kilometres.
St. Lawrence Church, Lavernock, Penarth, S Wales, Marconi and the birth of radio
(Info from Urban75.org) Situated close to the south Wales coastline betwixt Penarth and Barry is the attractive limestone St. Lawrence Church at Lavernock – small church with an interesting link to radio history.
Attached to the church perimeter wall is a bronze plaque erected by the Cardiff Rotary Club in 1948 to mark 50th anniversary of the first wireless signal being transmitted across open water.
On 13 May, 1897, Italian born Guglielmo Marconi (ably assisted by Cardiff Post Office engineer George Kemp) transmitted the first wireless signal across open water from nearby Lavernock Point to Flat Holm, a distance of 6 kilometres.