Table Head
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Table Head in Nova ScotiaTable Head is a Neighborhood in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Glace Bay in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island.
History[]
On December 15, 1902 Guglielmo Marconi established trans-Atlantic communication between Table Head in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and Poldhu in Cornwall, England using a 60 kilowatt transmitter and four 210-foot (64 m) towers. The site of the Marconi Towers Station is now used to house a museum, the Marconi National Historic Site.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Table Head Site, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia". Archived from the original on August 27, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2009.
Coordinates: 46°12′59.99″N 59°57′17.57″W / 46.2166639°N 59.9548806°W
Categories:
- Communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
- General Service Areas in Nova Scotia
- Transatlantic telecommunications
- Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia geography stubs