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Guglielmo Marconi : mago dell'invisibile dominatore degli spazi
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This collection consists of letters and telegrams from Guglielmo Marconi to his fiancée, Josephine Bowen Holman. There are also letters to Holman from Marconi's mother, Annie Jameson Marconi, one of his engineers, R. Norman Vyvyan, and various other correspondents (mainly family members). Portions of some of the letters to Holman from Marconi are written in Morse code, and there are pictures of his telegraph towers in Cornwall and two of his family home in Bologna. There are two manuscripts: Morse Code Legend written by Marconi and Holman's diary for January to April 1902. There are six pieces of ephemera, including two published copies of a paper by Marconi on the wireless telegraphy that he gave March 2, 1899 to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and 141 newspaper clippings. Subjects include: Marconi and Holman's relationship, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Morse Code, and Marconi's invention: the wireless telegraph.
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Manuscripts
A collection of material related to the work of Guglielmo Marconi and Richard Norman Vyvyan; the collection includes a manuscript volume, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The bulk of the collection is comprised of letters from Marconi to Vyvyan concerning the construction and successful implementation of a wireless transatlantic telegraph system in the first decade of the twentieth century. The collection also includes Vyvyan's detailed bound manuscript overview of wireless technology: "Notes on Long Distance Wireless Telegraphy and The Design and Construction and Working of High Power Wireless Stations" written between 1900 and 1904. Other correspondents in the collection include: Paul Brenot, Sir John Ambrose Fleming, Godfrey C. Isaacs, Beatrice Marconi, Alldin Usborne Moore, and Percy Wright Paget. Additional subjects covered in the collection include: the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd; the legacy of Marconi; and World War I.
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Manuscripts
Contains two copies of a menu cover and one of the menu from a dinner honoring Italian physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) given by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City in 1902, with signatures including those of Marconi and of Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Elihu Thomson (1853-1937), and Charles P. Steinmetz (1865-1923), as well as a first day cover and postage stamp featuring Marconi (Items 25-29). Also contains items featuring multiple signatures, including Beniamino Segre (1903-1977) and others (Item 30); Ernest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), and Frank Wild (John Robert Francis Wild, 1873-1939) (Item 31); and D. Allan Bromley (1926-2005) and Edward E. David, Jr. (1925- ) (Item 32).
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Manuscripts
A draft letter; possibly written to Stanley Baldwin or Ramsay MacDonald.
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Manuscripts
This letter was written to Royal Engineer Major S. A. Carr. In the letter Marconi is talking about some experiments with wireless telegraph he has been conducting. He also states that he hopes to create a "compact form" of his invention "to be applied on board...ships." The letter was written in London; the envelope is with the letter.
mssHM 79872