{"id":539,"date":"2004-08-25T10:56:50","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T14:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=539"},"modified":"2004-08-25T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T14:56:50","slug":"canadian-early-information-technology-marconi-and-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Early Information Technology: Marconi and Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"IMG_5487.JPG.200.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/images\/IMG_5487.JPG.200.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nOn our trip out East we visited a number of sites associated with the early history of telecommunications. At Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, a depressed and exhausted mining town (with a great mining museum) there is a small <a title=\"Parks Canada - Marconi National Historic Site of Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/lhn-nhs\/ns\/marconi\/index_e.asp\">Marconi National Historic Site of Canada<\/a> managed by Parks Canada. It is a one room museum on Table Head, a flat windy site above the ocean. Here, in 1902, Marconi established reliable radio transatlantic radio communication. (He had successfully recieved the first signals at Signal Hill in Newfoundland a year earlier, but was forced to move.) For more see the Parks Canada <a title=\"Parks Canada - Marconi National Historic Site of Canada - History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/lhn-nhs\/ns\/marconi\/natcul\/index_e.asp\">History<\/a> page.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAll that is left of the massive towers are the cement foundations and they are dissappearing in the grass and wind. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/images\/IMG_5487.JPG.800.html\">View image<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our trip out East we visited a number of sites associated with the early history of telecommunications. At Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, a depressed and exhausted mining town (with a great mining museum) there is a small Marconi National Historic Site of Canada managed by Parks Canada. It is a one room museum on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian Early Information Technology: Marconi and Nova Scotia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}