๐บ๐ธ Somerset is an unincorporated community and place (CDP) located within Franklin Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. Somerset housed one of the first Marconi Wireless Stations in the United States.
History New Brunswick Marconi Station was located at JFK Boulevard and Easton Avenue just a few minutes from the New Brunswick border. Today it is the site of Marconi Park. It was an early radio transmitter facility built in 1913 and operated by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. After the interruption of transatlantic telegraph cables by enemy action, the facility was confiscated by the United States Navy on April 7, 1917, to provide transatlantic communications during World War I. The New Brunswick Naval Radio Station was the principal wartime communication link between the United States and Europe, using the callsign NFF. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted from the site in 1918. After the war, ownership of the station, along with Marconi's other US assets, was transferred from the navy to RCA. The antenna masts were demolished in 1952 to make room for what is now a small mall containing a Kmart, but the buildings on the other side of JFK Boulevard were spared. All but one of the brick buildings were demolished around 2004 to make way for a storage locker facility. The bricks and tiles were saved for use in any future restoration of the spared building, and the Marconi facility in Belmar, New Jersey.
During World War I, the original Marconi spark-gap transmitter was replaced with an Alexanderson alternator, the invention of the famous General Electric engineer, with an output power of 200 kilowatts and looking like an ordinary power station generator. Its frequency was around 17ย kHz, which made its wavelength around 17,500 meters. The station used a huge 5,000-foot-long (1,500ย m) antenna supported by eight 400-foot (120ย m) tall steel masts, similar to the AT&T long wave telephone transmitter at RCA's Rocky Point, Long Island, transmitter facility.
Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP had a total area of 6.444 square miles (16.692ย kmยฒ), including 6.327 square miles (16.388ย kmยฒ) of land and 0.117 square miles (0.304ย kmยฒ) of water (1.82%).
Economy SHI International and Catalent are headquartered in Somerset.
PIM Brands (Division of The Promotion In Motion Companies and Makers of Welch's Fruit Snacks) operates a manufacturing plant in Somerset.
Meda Pharmaceuticals' U.S. home office is located in Somerset.
Somerset County is often listed as one of the richest counties in the United States. In 2011, the Washington Post named Somerset County the 6th richest county in the United States.
Somerset has a population of over 22,083 people. Somerset also forms part of the wider Franklin Township which has a population of over 65,642 people. It is also a part of the larger Somerset County.
๐บ๐ธ Flemington 40.509
๐ช๐ธ San Sebastiรกn de los Reyes 40.533
๐บ๐ธ Piscataway 40.546
๐บ๐ธ Bloomington-Normal 40.508
๐บ๐ธ New Brunswick 40.494
๐ช๐ธ Las Rozas de Madrid 40.492
๐บ๐ธ Bloomington 40.483
๐บ๐ธ Morristown -74.477
๐บ๐ธ Piscataway -74.461
๐บ๐ธ New Brunswick -74.446
๐บ๐ธ Parsippany -74.423
๐บ๐ธ Middletown -74.417
๐บ๐ธ Atlantic City -74.417
๐บ๐ธ Plainfield -74.416
๐บ๐ธ Ocean City -74.576
๐บ๐ธ Somerville -74.608
๐บ๐ธ Egg Harbor -74.612
๐บ๐ธ Monticello -74.683
Locations Near: Somerset -74.5002,40.5085
๐บ๐ธ Piscataway -74.461,40.546 d: 5.3
๐บ๐ธ New Brunswick -74.446,40.494 d: 4.9
๐บ๐ธ Middlesex -74.498,40.575 d: 7.4
๐บ๐ธ Edison -74.399,40.518 d: 8.6
๐บ๐ธ Somerville -74.608,40.57 d: 11.4
๐บ๐ธ Plainfield -74.416,40.615 d: 13.9
๐บ๐ธ Old Bridge -74.309,40.405 d: 19.9
๐บ๐ธ Princeton -74.667,40.358 d: 21.9
๐บ๐ธ Woodbridge -74.279,40.555 d: 19.4
๐บ๐ธ Morristown -74.477,40.797 d: 32.1
Antipodal to: Somerset 105.5,-40.509
๐ฆ๐บ Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 18812.5
๐ฆ๐บ Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 18743.4
๐ฆ๐บ Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 18722.1
๐ฆ๐บ City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 18706.6
๐ฆ๐บ Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 18687.3
๐ฆ๐บ Perth 115.857,-31.953 d: 18687.3
๐ฆ๐บ Wanneroo 115.803,-31.747 d: 18673.3
๐ฆ๐บ Albany 117.867,-35.017 d: 18769.9