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Guglielmo Marconi letter to Major S. A. Carr

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1896, September 16.
Call number: mssHM 79872
Creator: Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 18 cm :
Associated people: Carr, S. A.,

Guglielmo Marconi Correspondence

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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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Correspondence: Marconi, Guglielmo. Letters to Josephine Bowen Holman

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The collection, which is housed in two boxes, is arranged in the following manner: first three authors are arranged by number of letters in the collection (Guglielmo Marconi, R. Norman Vyvyan and Annie Jameson Marconi, in that order), and the rest are arranged alphabetically by other authors. This collection consists of letters and telegrams from Guglielmo Marconi to his fiancé, 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 6 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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Correspondence: Marconi, Guglielmo. Letters to Helen Holman - Z; Ephemera

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Guglielmo Marconi papers

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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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[Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937]. Morse Code Legend

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Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937. Letter to Josephine Bowen Holman

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Marconi tells Holman his experiments have been successful, but secret from the press, and mentions his meeting with Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, and how he is going to write a poem about wireless telegraphy.

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Guglielmo Marconi letter to Major S. A. Carr

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