Tyne and Wear HER(5519): Cullercoats, Brown's Point, Radio Telegraph (Y) Station

Tyne and Wear HER(5519): Cullercoats, Brown's Point, Radio Telegraph (Y) Station Unknown license check permission to reuse

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"A timber shed and radio station masts were built here in 1906-7 by the Amalgamated Radio Telegraph Company, who had formed in 1906 through the merger of the British De Forest Wireless Telegraph Syndicate (Lord Armstrong was an owner) and Poulsen and Pedersen's Danish wireless company. The station was used experimentally to send and receive messages from Denmark. The Amalgamated Radio Telegraph Company collapsed in 1907 when Lord Armstrong became bankrupt..."
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Link: http://twsitelines.info/SMR/5519
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
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