Forerunner of Wireless Telegraphy
Posted by: 
flyingmoose
N 39° 06.967 W 077° 50.779
18S E 253914 N 4333520
Located next to 2 other markers along westbound route 7, though one of the markers is no longer there. There is also a stone marker at the same location (see attached photo).
Waymark Code: WMEBP
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 06/06/2006
Views: 14
From nearby Bear's Den Mountain to the Catoctin Ridge, a distance of fourteen miles, Dr. Mahlon Loomis, dentist, sent the first aerial wireless signals, 1866-73, using kites flown by copper wires. Loomis received a patent in 1872 and his company was chartered by Congress in 1873, but lack of captial frustrated his experiments. He died in 1886.
