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The Anglo-American Telegraph Company used this telegraph key (right) and sounder in their Rantem office between 1923 and 1932, when the small station on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula closed. […]
The Red Ensign of Newfoundland was the flag used to represent the Dominion of Newfoundland. The flag filling its top left quadrant is the United Kingdom’s Union Flag. […]
This is a section of the transatlantic cable laid by the Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1858. Telegraph cables were very intricate. Only a few centimetres in diameter, they […]
Marconi’s assistants on Signal Hill assemble a kite to raise the antenna in an attempt to receive the first transatlantic radio signal.
Marconi in the room set up on Signal Hill with the equipment he used to receive the first transatlantic signal.
Herbert Hardy, pictured at his desk, was one of the many operators who kept the Battle Harbour station running.
This publicity photo was taken of Guglielmo Marconi for a magazine interview in 1897. On the left is a type of spark-gap transmitter. On the right is a […]
The RMS Titanic leaving Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage.
From left to right, are a spark-gap transmitter, an induction coil, and a telegraph key. A copper sheet was hung above the table to act as an aerial. […]
Three of these radio towers stood at the HM Wireless Station in Mount Pearl. Standing just over 90 metres, they acted as aerials for the station and were […]