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Article: The Ballycastle cottage where radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi broadcast some of his earliest signals is for sale.
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- September 23, 2009
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The Ballycastle cottage where radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi
broadcast some of his earliest signals is for sale.
The coastal property (above), which is on the market for Pounds
400,000, also has planning permission so the new owner can build a
2,500 sq ft modern home. The news will be music to the ears of house-
hunters who like the sound of owning such a historic home.
The cottage overlooking rocks on the North Antrim coast was used
in the early development of the radio system by the famous Nobel
Prize-winning Italian inventor.
In July 1898 Marconi (inset) stayed at the cottage and it was the
base for some of the earliest radio transmissions to and from
Rathlin Island.
The radio messages ...