Marconi’s Legacy in Newfoundland and Labrador
A man in a checked jacket and hat sits at a table topped by wireless equipment. Behind him are bare cupboards with no doors, and a metal stove and stovepipe.

Marconi’s Legacy in Newfoundland and Labrador

Admiralty House Communications Museum and Archive 2024

On December 12, 1901, an amateur scientist sat in an abandoned hospital, waiting in silence. What was he waiting for? The impossible. Marconi’s Legacy in Newfoundland and Labrador tells the story of how a man named Guglielmo Marconi became a pioneer of wireless communications, how he brought wireless communication to Newfoundland and Labrador, and how it changed the little colony forever.


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Credits

Research

Admiralty House Communications Museum and Archive

Text

English writer

Timothy Elliott

English editor

Sandy Newton

French editor

Cecilia Bungay

Comparative editor

Timothy Elliott

Translation

French translation

Lucie Leblanc

Project Supervision

Megan Webb

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