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The site was the first United States transatlantic wireless telegraph station, built in 1901-1902 by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, a predecessor of RCA. On January 19, 1903, it transmitted the first U.S. transatlantic wireless telegram, addressed to Edward VII, King of England, by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America.
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Wellfleet, Massachusetts · United States
