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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Guglielmo Marconi papers
Identifier/Call Number: mssMarconig
Physical Description:
0.42 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1900-1937
Abstract: A collection of material related to the
Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi and his chief engineer Richard
Norman Vyvyan.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Guglielmo Marconi papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased for the Huntington from Inlibris Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH by the Library Collectors'
Council, March 2021.
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer who spent
much of his professional life in Great Britain. In the late 1890s, he began experimenting
with wireless telegraphy, which culminated on December 14, 1901, with the first
trans-Atlantic transmission of a wireless telegraph. Marconi would later go on to experiment
with short-wave radio and microwaves.
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.
Processed by Gayle M. Richardson in September 2022.
Arranged alphabetically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Electric apparatus and appliances -- History -- 20th century
Electrical engineering -- History -- 20th century
Electricity -- History -- 20th century
Meteorology -- Research -- History -- 20th century
Technology -- History -- 20th century
Telegraph, Wireless -- Marconi system -- History -- Sources
World War, 1914-1918
Cape Cod Bay (Mass.)
Glace Bay (N.S.)
Poldhu (Cornwall)
Clippings (information artifacts) -- 20th century
Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century
Manuscripts -- 20th century
Photographs -- 20th century
Brenot, Paul, 1880-1967
Fleming, J. A., Sir (John
Ambrose), 1849-1945
Isaacs, Godfrey Charles, 1866-1925
Marconi, Beatrice, 1882-1976
Moore, Alldin Usborne, 1878-1942
Paget, Percy Wright
Vyvyan, Richard Norman, 1876-1946
Great Britain. Admiralty
Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company of America