Twin Lights claims a Marconi wireless telegraphy first and so does Cape Cod National Seashore. Why is that?
Both have valid claims to Marconi wireless telegraphy first. On 30th September 1899, Gugliemo Marconi erected a receiving antennae at Twin Lights and from offshore sent messages reporting on the progress of the Great WHite Fleet that was honoring Admiral Dewey. Those transmissions were the first demonstrations of practical wireless telegraphy in America. On 16th October Marconi telegraphed reports of the America s Cup races off Sandy Hook to the New York Herald. That was the first use of wireless telegraphy on a commercial basis. The first transatlantic messages were sent from England to Cape Cod on 18th January 1903.
