Discovering Marconi
This morning whilst the weather was still
decent I headed down the road to go to Salvan as I had a question and the mayor’s
office is only open on Tuesday mornings and Friday afternoons. Although unable to settle my particular request
it did lead to my taking a walk.
One that I should have done years ago, but
somehow never got around to doing.
Salvan is where Guglielmo Marconi achieved
his first experiments in the wireless transmission of sound.
There is a walk that one can take to the
various rocks and sites used for this purpose and if it hadn’t been for the parcoursvita (a sort of path that
combines various exercise elements for strength, endurance and flexibility) that was halfway around, it truly would
have taken only 30 to 40 minutes, as advertised.
Imagine the longest distance he achieved
was in between Salvan and the small village where I rent in the summers Les
Marécottes. The fall colors are going to be much better than in “normal” years,
thanks to the extreme heat and lack of rain this past summer – there are even
some reds!
All goes to show that even the tiniest of
villages or spots also have their own interest or claim to fame. The church
also has a wooden plaque honoring the Swiss chef that went down with the
Titanic.
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| View from the "Bergère" rock |
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| View from the "Bergère" rock |
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| towards the mountains from the Age d'Or |
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| Detail from the top right corner of the preceding photo |
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| Plaque from the ITU attesting to Marconi's work here in 1895 |
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| Another plaque from the IEEE about Marconi's experiments |
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| through one of the telescopes |
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| through one of the telescopes |
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| Just some of the fall colors to be enjoyed this morning |
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