Historical Markers in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia

By Cosmos Mariner, July 21, 2019

Marconi Wireless Station Marker
(wide view • Old Glace Bay Town Hall in background)

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1 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Glace Bay — Marconi Wireless Station / La Station de Communication Sans Fil de Marconi —

English: Having demonstrated the feasibility of transatlantic wireless communication in 1901, Guglielmo Marconi established a permanent station on Cape Breton Island in 1902. When the original Table Head site proved too . . . — — Map (db m139300) HM

2 ► Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Region, Glace Bay — Transatlantic Wireless / T.S.F. Transatlantique / Radiotelegrafico Transatlantico —

English: In 1901 Signor Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio message at Signal Hill in St. John’s. On 15 December, 1902, he sent the first West to East message from a new station at Table Head to Poldhu, . . . — — Map (db m139201) HM