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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. […]
J.J. Collins photographed at the Sable Island wireless station in Nova Scotia. Collins regularly travelled to different stations to perform inspections.
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 […]
The HM Wireless Station in Mount Pearl under construction circa 1915. Most materials had to be transported to the site by horse and cart.
Marconi’s assistants on Signal Hill assemble a kite to raise the antenna in an attempt to receive the first transatlantic radio 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 […]
Guglielmo Marconi and a group of people stand in front of Cabot Tower in St. John’s, Newfoundland, December 1901. Cabot Tower became a Marconi wireless station in 1933.
Several buildings clustered at Point Amour, Labrador. It is unclear which building the Point Amour wireless station operated from.
The plan for an aerial system to replace the one destroyed at Poldhu. Wires connected the four towers to the station below. This setup was eventually used at […]
The Poldhu station with its original aerial system. Marconi used the station for some short-range testing. High winds tore these aerials down before he could use them to […]
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. […]