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A plaque recognises Perth Wireless Station as a Historic Engineering Marker.
Wireless Hill Park is a 40-hectare (99-acre) park that is the location of the former Applecross Wireless Station, an early radio station in Western Australia. The station buildings have been preserved and now house the Wireless Hill Telecommunications Museum. The site is listed in the Register of the National Estate and the State Register of Heritage Places.
In 1909 the Commonwealth Government decided that wireless telegraphy stations should be established around the coastline of Australia, and in 1910 awarded the contract for the Perth station to Australasian Wireless Limited. Clearing of the site and construction began in 1911, with the Applecross Wireless Station completed and officially opened on 30 September 1912.
The station was initially owned and operated by Australasian Wireless, on behalf of the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG), as a commercial service for shipping.
The Institution of Engineers Australia, through its Heritage Committees, established the Australian Historic Engineering Plaquing Program to acknowledge past engineering achievements and to draw public attention to the significant contributions they have made to society.The Plaquing Program is a means of bringing public recognition to significant historic engineering works and the engineers who created them. The Program is intended to contribute to the conservation of Australian engineering heritage.
Location
| Address: | Telefunken Drive, Wireless Hill Park, Ardross, 6153 |
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| State: | WA |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -32.030492 Long: 115.827675 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Plaque |
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| Monument Theme: | Technology |
| Sub-Theme: | Industry |
Dedication
| Approx. Monument Dedication Date: | 1994 |
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HISTORIC ENGINEERING
MARKER
PERTH WIRELESS STATION
On 30 September 1912, eighteen years after Marconi`s first radio experiments, the Australian Postmaster General`s Department commissioned this coastal radio station, equipped with a Telefunken 25kw Quenched-Spark long - wave transmitter, coupled to a 120 metre high guyed aerial. It established the first direct radiotelegraphic communications across the continent and maintained contact with shipping. Between 1922 and its 1967 decommissioning, it also linked Australia to the world by short-wave.
Dedicated By
The Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1994.
