Osprey in Flight

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

Hear from Mark Faherty all about our summer visitors - the Osprey. For more information, click here.

Chatham and her Sister Stations Across America

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

Hear from Fred Carl, Founder of Info Age Museum in New Jersey about Chatham and other stations across America. For […]

Secret Codes

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

Grades 3 and up. Younger children may need the assistance of an adult. What if we want to send a […]

Ship Bridge Technology: Safety, Operations and Security

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

With the advent of satellites, ship to ship and ship to shore marine communication underwent a dramatic change. The traditional […]

Gadgets & Gizmos

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

Grades 3 and up. Younger children may need the assistance of an adult. Seeing is still not believing! We’ll spend […]

Solutes, Solvents, and Solutions

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

Grades 4 and up. Younger children will need the assistance of an adult. Let’s mix up some potions and see […]

Excellent Electrolysis

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

Grades 4 and up. Younger children will need the assistance of an adult. How do we know that the chemical […]

Feathers vs. Radio: How Homing Pigeons Bested Marconi

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

Before radio, military communication relied upon various methods from couriers to signal flags to telegraph. When radio technology made significant advances […]

Dino Dig

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

(Grades 2 and up. Younger children may need the assistance of an adult.) Pa·le·on·tol·o·gist: Someone who travels many miles to […]

The World’s Greatest Coastal Station

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

This year, the Marconi-RCA Wireless Museum celebrates the final of three consecutive centennials historically important to both Cape Cod and […]

LunaNet: NASA’s Wireless Network on the Moon

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

NASA is developing the spacecraft to land the first woman and next man on the Moon. Unlike the Apollo landings, […]

The World’s Greatest Coastal Station

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 847 Orleans Rd, Chatham, MA

Ed Moxon is a retired electrical engineer who returned to the Cape in 2004 after a career in research and […]