Manuscripts

Guglielmo Marconi letter to Prime Minister

Description: A draft letter; possibly written to Stanley Baldwin or Ramsay MacDonald.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1924
Call number: mssMarconig
Creator: Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased for the Huntington from Inlibris Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH by the Library Collectors' Council, March 2021.
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Guglielmo Marconi papers

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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Guglielmo Marconi letters to Richard N. Vyvyan

Manuscripts

New York, N. Y.; on board R. M. S. Etruria; Mullian, South Cornwall. Includes a letter of introduction for R. N. Vyvyan.

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Guglielmo Marconi letter to Richard N. Vyvyan

Manuscripts

London, England.

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Guglielmo Marconi letters to Richard N. Vyvyan

Manuscripts

London, England.

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Guglielmo Marconi letters to Richard N. Vyvyan

Manuscripts

New York, N. Y.; Newport, Rhode Island; Mullion, South Cornwall; Ireland.

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Guglielmo Marconi letter to Major S. A. Carr

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.

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Guglielmo Marconi letter to Prime Minister

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