MIRACLE IN A TIN SHED
N 1895 .Marconi made, in-Italy, his first. practical experiments in radio communication. A year later he went to England where, in May, 1897, he and George Kemp exchanged the first wireless signals across the water between Lavernock Point, near Penarth, and the Island of Flat Holm, in the Bristol Channel. How the range was, before long, immeasurably increased Marconi explained in an _ historic re cording made some years ago and included in The Tin Tabernacle, a BBC programme which will start the rounds of National stations with a broadcast from 2YA at 10.0 p.m. on Thursday, September 9, With those early transmissions the miracle had at last been achieved, and the Tin Tabernacle of this programme was a émall corrugated iron hut which was built to make use of it. It huddled on the banks of the River Mersey on Seaforth Beach, near Liverpool, and it was there that the first shore station for wireless communication with ships at sea was established. In The Tin Tabernacle listeners will hear the reminiscences of old timers looking back over the years, for it was in the Tabernacle that the Marine Service Depot and Wireless School was opened in 1903. The programme shows how the work’ done at Seaforth has
helped to build up the vast network of present-day marine communications, and to. train wireless operators for the ships of many nations. One of the first seagoing operators in the world tells of his early voyages, and among the veterans mentioned who graduated from | the Tin Tabernacle to become international figures was Ernie Fiske-later to become Sir Ernest Fiske. Another famous event is recalled by Captain Kendall, now over 80 years of age, and one time master of the liner Montrose. On the evening of July 22, 1910, Captain Kendall was outward-bound from Antwerp for Canada when he despatched the message which led to the arrest at sea off Father Point, Quebec, of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, the first major criminal to be apprehended with the help of radio. a
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 789, 3 September 1954, Page 20
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342MIRACLE IN A TIN SHED New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 789, 3 September 1954, Page 20
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