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Marconi National Historic Site, located at Table Head in Glace Bay, is the site of Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station, callsign VAS, and the first wireless message sent from North America to Europe on December 15, 1902.
Fun activities you can try at home while you learn about Marconi National Historic Site. Transatlantic radio signals Learn about pioneering inventor Guglielmo Marconi and wireless communication at the Table Head station.
Spanning the Ocean. For Marconi the ‘great thing’ was to transmit wireless signals across the Atlantic. He built stations at Poldhu, England, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, and South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. At this stage of wireless technology relatively long electromagnetic waves were used as signals.
Within a few years, all the members of the British Empire were linked by Marconi stations and indeed, in the years between the two world wars, the Marconi Company held a near monopoly of world wireless communications.
B1A 5M7. Phone. 902-842-2530. Email. lhn-agb-nhs@pc.gc.ca. Directions. The site is located at 15 Timmerman Street, on Table Head in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Take Route 4 from Sydney to Glace Bay (23 km or 14 mi). Driving time is 30 minutes. Or take scenic Route 255, the Marconi Trail, from Louisbourg (51 km or 32 mi). Driving time is one hour.
Marconi Wireless Station was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1983 because: it provided the first regular intercontinental service in 1908; and it is the site where Marconi further refined wireless technology.
Marconi National Historic Site, located at Table Head in Glace Bay, is the site of Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station, callsign VAS, and the first wireless message sent from North America to Europe on December 15, 1902.
