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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.
mssMarconig
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Manuscript map drawn by Charles Rivez, apparently copied from an earlier map. Drawn up for use in the French and Indian War. Locates Indian Town, with quarries, coal mine and the French shipyard. Shows the soundings of Spanish Bay and free deposits of coal and stone. Ink and wash, with outline in red.
mssHM 15403