Description: Marconi Wireless on Cape Cod: South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1901-1917, by Michael E. Whatley, pub. 1987, stapled softcover (6x9”) 32 pgs, b&w ils. …ISBN 096183000X Descriptions and illustrations of the project to build and operate equipment to demonstrate wireless transmission to and from Europe at the start of the 20th century. Included is a separate booklet on the same topic: Marconi and his South Wellfleet Wireless ---The Marconi Wireless Station Site in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA, is the site of the first transatlantic wireless communication between the United States of America and Europe, on January 18, 1903. At this location, now part of 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 station in Poldhu, Cornwall, United Kingdom. REF: wiki Binding tight and pages clean. Some very slight surface wear to the covers. Please see the pictures for more information about this book and the condition of this copy. ► We are thinning contents of our smoke-free, pet-free home. Books will be listed, plus toys including CCG and trading cards, fabric/wallpaper sample books, jigsaw puzzles, jewelry, household items and maybe some of my fishing and workshop stuff.
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Publication Year: 1987
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: Marconi Wireless on Cape Cod, South Wellfleet, MA, 1901-1917
Author: Michael E. Whatley
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Illustrated
Publisher: Nauset Marsh Press
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Topic: Radio
History: First Transatlantic Wireless Communication
