Marconi at Twin Lights

Marconi at Twin Lights. Twin Lights Historic Site. , Messages from the first commercial demonstration of wireless telegraph were received at this site in 1899 from the famous Italian inventory Guglielmo Marconi., Marconi was invited to America by Gordon Bennett Jr., the owner of the New York Herald Newspaper, to report on the America's Cup sailboat race using his wireless telegraph. An antenna mast was erected on top of the north Twin Lights tower., On September 30, the America's Cup race was preempted by a naval review organized by then governor of New York, Theodore Roosevelt. The review celebrated the victory of Commodore George Dewey's fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay. Marconi's first wireless transmissions in America were sent from here to report on the progress of Commodore Dewey's fleet., On October 3, the same wireless apparatus was used to receive reports on the America's Cup race between the Shamrock and the Columbia, which took place in the ocean just off the tip of Sandy Hook., Marconi maintained a wireless station at Twin Lights for a short period of time before deciding that other locations along the United States coastline would provide better reception.