Rugby Radio Station

June 1924.

of Hillmorton, near Rugby

The design of station was entrusted to a technical commission chaired by Lord Milner with Dr. W. H. Eccles, Edward Herbert Shaughnessy and Mr. L. B. Turner as members. The commission recommended the construction of a valve station, although at that time no high-power station of this type was in existence or contemplated. Mr. Shaughnessy, as executive member of the commission, was responsible for the construction, a task which he accomplished with complete success. He read a paper describing the station before the Wireless Section of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1926.

1926 Demonstration of two-way telephone conversation across the Atlantic involved 2 different circuits:
1) From London speech was carried by underground telephone wires to the to the Post Office's Rugby radio station, and thence by wireless to a receiving station at Houlton, Maine and from there by telephone circuit to New York City.
2) From New York, speech was carried to the sending station of the Radio Corporation at Rocky Point, Long Island and from there by wireless signal to a receiving station at Wroughton, near Swindon, and then by telephone circuit to London.

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