The Needles The Needles The Needles is a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise about 30m out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, close to Alum Bay, and part of Totland, the westernmost Civil Parish of the Isle of Wight. The Needles Lighthouse stands at the outer, western end of the formation. Built in 1859, it has been automated since 1994. The waters and adjoining seabed form part of the Needles Marine Conservation Zone and the Needles along with the shore and heath above are part of the Headon Warren and
New Brunswick Marconi Station New Brunswick Marconi Station New Brunswick Marconi Station was located at JFK Boulevard and Easton Avenue just one mile from the New Brunswick border in Somerset, New Jersey. Ground was broken for the site on April 9, 1913, by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. Although the station was completed in 1914 Marconi's planned commercial use for communication with his receiver station in Towyn, Wales never took place because of the onset of World War I but was finally initiated by RCA on March 1, 1920. The station served as a backup to RCA's primary transmitting station on Long