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This map shows the locations of known Marconi stations as of 1906.
This map shows the locations of known Marconi stations as of 1904.
This map shows the locations of known Marconi stations as of 1902.
One section in the Western Star newspaper published letters from the public. This entry shows some of the concerns people had with the Corner Brook radio station. Image […]
The HM Wireless Station in Mount Pearl during the First World War. The Station comprised the two large buildings in the centre of the photograph. The long building […]
A group of men attend to an injured survivor of the SS Viking disaster.
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. […]
The HM Wireless Station in Mount Pearl under construction circa 1915. Most materials had to be transported to the site by horse and cart.
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 […]
This photograph records a meeting of Marconi (left) with Sir William Horwood and Sir Robert on Signal Hill. Horwood was the Chief Justice of Newfoundland at the time. […]
The Battle Harbour wireless station. Like this one, many stations were built in secluded areas along the sea coast. Their isolation was not for privacy reasons, but because […]
This station, which Marconi had built in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, a small community neighbouring Cape Cod, was destroyed in a windstorm. It forced Marconi to find a new […]