Leaving Ballycastle on the Spirit of Rathlin Car Ferry to Rathlin Island NI
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Rathlin Ferry Feburary 2018
Rathlin Island’s Service of Remembrance on Sunday 2017
A wreath laying at sea formed part of Rathlin Island’s Service of Remembrance on Sunday.
The act, carried out by the Lord Lieutenant for County Antrim Joan Christie OBE and the Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Councillor Joan Baird OBE, was a poignant reminder of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Drake. 18 sailors perished when it sank off the island shoreline after suffering a torpedo attack from a German U-boat in October 1917.
Speaking afterwards the Mayor said: “It was very significant for us all to gather together and remember this tragic loss a century later. I would like to thank the organisers of the service
and all of those who took the time to participate and pay tribute to all the fallen.”
The island commemoration began with a service in St Thomas’ Church led by Rev Patrick Barton. Afterwards wreaths were laid in the adjoining graveyard to remember lives lost on HMS Racoon and HMS Viknor.
Among those to pay their respects were the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, the Royal Naval Association, the Royal Naval Patrol Service, the PSNI and the Marconi Radio Group.
Organised by members of Ballycastle Royal British Legion, the island event
was attended by representatives from branches across Northern Ireland, including Belfast, Lisburn and Bangor.
The service on the island is traditionally held one week after Remembrance Sunday.
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The largest marina in Northern Ireland. It opened in 1989 on the southern shores of Belfast Lough close to the Irish Sea cruising routes. The marina has become well known for providing a berth in the centre of Bangor.
Bangor is part of the North Down constituency. Tourism is important to the local economy, particularly in the summer months, and plans are being made for the long-delayed redevelopment of the seafront; a notable historical building in the town is Bangor Old Customs House. The largest plot of private land in the area, the. Bangor Marina is the largest in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and holds Blue Flag status. The town is twinned with Virginia Beach in the United States.
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Wireless telegraphy
Wireless telegraphy is the transmission of electric telegraphy signals without wires. It is now used as a historical term for early radio telegraphy systems which communicated with radio waves, although when the term originated in the late 1800s it was also used for a variety of other experimental techniques for communicating telegraphically without wires, such as photoelectric and induction telegraphy.
Wireless telegraphy came to mean Morse code transmitted by radio waves, initially called Hertzian waves, discovered by Heinrich Hertz in 1886. The first practical wireless telegraphy transmitters and receivers were developed by Guglielmo Marconi beginning in 1895. By 1910 communication by Hertzian waves was universally referred to as radio, and the term wireless telegraphy has been largely replaced by the more modern term radiotelegraphy. The transmission of speech began to displace wireless telegraphy by the 1920s for many applications, making possible radio broadcasting. Wireless telegraphy continued to be used for private point-to-point business, governmental, and military communication, such as telegrams and diplomatic communications, and evolved into radioteletype networks. Continuous wave radiotelegraphy is regulated by the International Telecommunication Union as emission type A1A.
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Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (; Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system. He is credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.Marconi was also an entrepreneur, businessman, and founder of The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in the United Kingdom in 1897 (which became the Marconi Company). He succeeded in making an engineering and commercial success of radio by innovating and building on the work of previous experimenters and physicists. In 1929, Marconi was ennobled as a Marchese (marquis) by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, and, in 1931, he set up the Vatican Radio for Pope Pius XI.
County Antrim
County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 3,046 square kilometres (1,176 sq mi) and has a population of about 618,000. It is one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland and is within the historic province of Ulster.
The Glens of Antrim offer isolated rugged landscapes, the Giant's Causeway is a unique landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bushmills produces whiskey, and Portrush is a popular seaside resort and night-life area. The majority of Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, is in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down.
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Invention of radio
Many people were involved in the invention of radio in its current form. Experimental work on the connection between electricity and magnetism began around 1820 with the work of Hans Christian Ørsted, and continued with the work of André-Marie Ampère, Joseph Henry, and Michael Faraday. These investigations culminated in a theory of electromagnetism developed by James Clerk Maxwell, which predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves.
After Maxwell's theory was published, many people experimented with wireless communication, some intentionally using Maxwell's theory and some not. It is considered likely that the first intentional transmission of a signal by means of electromagnetic waves was performed by David Edward Hughes around 1880, although this was considered to be induction at the time. The first systematic and unequivocal transmission of EM waves was performed by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and described in papers published in 1887 and 1890. Hertz famously considered these results as being of little practical value.
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