Night at the Museum - Speaker Series: The Early Use of Radio Communications in Lewes and other Eastern Ports

With the turn of the 20th Century, the populated sections of the US were
accustomed to the 19th Century inventions of telegraphs and telephones that
provided near instant communications across the land where electrical lines could be strung that carried these signals. 

Until the invention of radio, we had no means of ship-to-shore communications. That situation changed early in the 20th Century when Guglielmo Marconi’s invention of radio was first used on vessels with his receivers and transmitters and after large coastal radio stations were installed on the US and UK coasts. Lewes and other eastern US ports were early adopters of this new life-saving technology.