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Marconi Station World Heritage Site
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Nigel
May 25, 2021
The site is famous as the location of Poldhu Wireless Station, Guglielmo Marconi's transmitter for the first transatlantic radio message on 12 December 1901. Marconi received the transmission on Signal Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland. The station was built partly on cliff top pastures that had been enclosed in 1871 and partly on medieval fields belonging to a nearby settlement, Angrouse.
The site is famous as the location of Poldhu Wireless Station, Guglielmo Marconi's transmitter for the first transatlantic radio message on 12 December 1901. Marconi received the transmission on Signal Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland. The station was built partly on cliff top pastures that had been e…
Richard
April 25, 2022
The site at Poldhu was purchased in 1900 and is famous for the first transatlantic radio signal which introduced everything from broadcasting to satellite communications, mobile phones, broadband, the Internet and the worldwide web. Poldhu was at the forefront of it all.
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Mullion, England