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Marconi Wireless Station Site (South Wellfleet, Massachusetts)

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Marconi Wireless Station Site (South Wellfleet, Massachusetts)

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 (64 m) 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 station in Poldhu, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The first transmissions received in North America by Marconi were at Signal Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador in 1901 and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in 1902.

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