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- Date Dedicated
- 2003-09-26
- Dedication #
- 46
- Location
- Switzerland
- IEEE Regions
- 8
- IEEE sections
- Switzerland
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Early Swiss Wireless Experiments, 1897
Salvan, Switzerland - 26 September 2003 - IEEE Switzerland Section
On this spot in 1895, with local assistance, Guglielmo Marconi carried out some of the first wireless experiments. He first transmitted a signal from this "Shepherdess Stone" over a few meters and later, following one and a half months of careful adjustments, over a distance of up to one and a half kilometers. This was the beginning of Marconi´s pivotal involvement in wireless radio.
The plaque can be viewed in the town of Salvan, Switzerland, attached to the famous Shepherdess Stone.
The village of Salvan, Switzerland was known in the last years of the 19th century as a health resort. Located in the southwest of Switzerland in the Swiss Alps, very close to the France border, it was accessible only by a narrow mule path, nicknamed "route de Mont".
Much of this information was obtained some 70 years after the event, from the young assistant, Maurice Gay-Balmaz, who was 10 years old at the time of the experiment.
