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After World War I, the old New Brunswick, New Jersey Marconi Company Wireless Station on Easton Avenue in the Somerset section of Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey became part of the newly organized Radio Corporation of America (RCA) as station W.I.I. under the World Wide Wirless logo. RCAs David Sarnoff conducted an inspection tour of the facility in 1921. Some of the greatest scientists of the era attended. From left to right are: three unidentified men, David Sarnoff, Thomas J. Hayden, Ernst Julius Berg, S. Benedict, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, A.N. Goldsmith, A. Malsin, Irving Langmuir, Albert W. Hull, E.B. Pillsbury, Saul Dushman, Richard Howland Ranger, George Ashley Campbell and two unidentified men. Some of the unidentified men might be John Carson (engineer), and Ernst Alexanderson. Others may be additional station engineers like Thomas J. Hayden who is next to Sarnoff.

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Marconi Station was located at JFK Boulevard and Easton Avenue, the present site of Marconi Park, and was referred to as the New Brunswick Station. It was an early radio transmitter facility built and operated by the American Marconi Wireless Corporation, and it was confiscated by the U.S. Navy during World War I, the station was the principal wartime communication link between the United States and Europe. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted from the site in 1918. After the war, ownership of the station, along with Marconi's other US assets, were transferred by the US Navy to RCA. The antenna masts were demolished in 1952 to make room for what is now a small mall containing a Kmart, but the buildings on the other side of JFK Boulevard were spared. All but one of the brick buildings were demolished around 2004 to make way for a storage locker facility. The bricks and tiles were saved for use in any future restoration of the spared building.

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Franklin Township Public library archive
http://www.franklintwp.org/photoarchive/photodb/nhetl5zcis8jiz764pvxr3x8q2q2m9t5.asp

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