Walking along the Lizard path we came across this plaque on a wall by a wooden shed. The shed is the restored wireless station where in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi made the distance record by receiving signals from 186 miles away, transmitted from the Isle of Wight. The hut also received the world's first SOS signal from a ship, pre-dating the Titanic SOS by 2 years. This hut is the oldest surviving Marconi wireless station in the world. There is even a Victorian mystery novel based on the murky world of wireless in the early 1900's.Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Wireless
Walking along the Lizard path we came across this plaque on a wall by a wooden shed. The shed is the restored wireless station where in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi made the distance record by receiving signals from 186 miles away, transmitted from the Isle of Wight. The hut also received the world's first SOS signal from a ship, pre-dating the Titanic SOS by 2 years. This hut is the oldest surviving Marconi wireless station in the world. There is even a Victorian mystery novel based on the murky world of wireless in the early 1900's.
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