Frame
Top Mat
Bottom Mat
Dimensions
Image:
12.00" x 7.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
17.50" x 12.50"
Marconi Station Sunrise Framed Print
by Bill Wakeley
Product Details
Marconi Station Sunrise framed print by Bill Wakeley. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
Sunrise seen from the Marconi Station Site, in Wellfleet Cape Cod MA.... more
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3 - 4 business days
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Artist's Description
Sunrise seen from the Marconi Station Site, in Wellfleet Cape Cod MA.
The Marconi Wireless Station Site in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts is the site of the first transatlantic wireless communication between the United States and Europe. At this location, now in the Cape Cod National Seashore, inventor Guglielmo Marconi erected a large antenna array on four 210-foot wooden towers, and established a transmitting station powered by kerosene engines that produced the 25,000 volts of electricity needed to send signals to a similar station in Poldhu, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
One of the station's most notable roles occurred with the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912. Operators at the station were able to alert the RMS Carpathia so that the rescue of some of the Titanic's passengers could be effected. The station was shut down in 1917 in part over concerns about its use in World War I, but also because its towers were threatened with erosion. In 1920, usable materials a...
About Bill Wakeley
Photographer/Artist and Runner from Litchfield County Connecticut.The world as I see it, from my home state and surrounding areas.
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