August 1914
Photo Article:
The Belmar Station 

The Belmar Station

          The illustration at the top of this page shows the operating building located at the water's edge at Belmar, N.J.   The masts of this gigantic Marconi station which appear in the background, are 300 feet high and aerials carried on them stretch westward for almost a mile.  It is here that the wireless messages which are soon to wing their way across the Atlantic from Wales will be received.  The Belmar plant is one of the largest in the world and perhaps the most important link in the Marconi world-wide wireless chain.  It has equipment second to none, as the photographs on the pages following will testify.  The operating building necessarily appears small in the illustration, but is over 82 feet long.  It contains a generously proportioned office for the manager, a similar one for the engineer in charge; also a large store room and a coat room.  The room containing the tuning apparatus runs the full depth of the building and is connected by a message chute with the receiving room adjoining.  Nearby is the charging room for small accumulators and the main operating room with five large tables, which, when fully manned, will require thirty operators.  All messages received and transmitted from this station will be handled automatically, most of them being received at the Broad Street and Madison Square offices of the Marconi Company.  Similar arrangements have been made for filing Wales station messages in London, thus placing the two great cities in the world in direct communications by trans-Atlantic wireless.