Guglielmo Marconi Papers: Finding Aid mssMarconig
Gayle M. Richardson
The Huntington Library
September 2022
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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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Preferred Citation
[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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Processing Information
Processed by Gayle M. Richardson in September 2022.
Arrangement
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
Box 1, Folder 1
Richard N. Vyvyan Notes on Long Distance Wireless Telegraphy and The Design and
Construction and Working of High Power Wireless Stations: autograph, bound
volume
1900-1904
Scope and Contents
Spine is damaged, with loose covers, handle carefully.
Box 1, Folder 2
Paul Brenot letter to Richard N. Vyvyan
1924 May 3
Scope and Contents
Paris, France. Letter is in French.
Box 1, Folder 3
Commanding Royal Flying Corps letter to G. O. C. 5th Brigade
1917 May 5
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter, signed by H. Trenchard; followed by copy of a letter from H. N.
Walker to Headquarters, 15th Wing, Royal Flying Corps, May 10, 1917.
Box 1, Folder 4
Sir John Ambrose Fleming letters to Richard N. Vyvyan
1901-1937
Scope and Contents
London, England; Sidmouth, South Devon.
Box 1, Folder 5
Great Britain. Admiralty letter to Messrs Marconi's Wireless Telegraph
Co.
1915 June 12
Scope and Contents
London, England. Signed by O. Murray.
Box 1, Folder 6
Imperial and International Communications Limited letter to H. A. White,
General Manager, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd
1930 August 8
Scope and Contents
Carbon copy, with typed signature: Edward Wilshaw.
Box 1, Folder 7
Godfrey Charles Isaacs letters to Richard N. Vyvyan
1915-1925
Scope and Contents
London, England.
Box 1, Folder 8
Beatrice Marconi letter to Mildred Vyvyan
undated
Scope and Contents
Holland House.
Box 1, Folder 9
Guglielmo Marconi letter to Prime Minister
approximately 1924
Scope and Contents
A draft letter; possibly written to Stanley Baldwin or Ramsay MacDonald.
Box 1, Folder 10
Guglielmo Marconi letters to Richard N. Vyvyan
1902-1903
Scope and Contents
New York, N. Y.; on board R. M. S. Etruria; Mullian, South Cornwall. Includes a letter
of introduction for R. N. Vyvyan.
Box 1, Folder 11
Guglielmo Marconi letters to Richard N. Vyvyan
1904-1907
Scope and Contents
New York, N. Y.; Newport, Rhode Island; Mullion, South Cornwall; Ireland.
Box 1, Folder 12
Guglielmo Marconi letters to Richard N. Vyvyan
1908 March-August
Scope and Contents
London, England.
Box 1, Folder 13
Guglielmo Marconi letter to Richard N. Vyvyan
1909 June 10
Scope and Contents
London, England.
Box 1, Folder 14
Alldin Usborne Moore letters to Richard N. Vyvyan
1915-1917
Scope and Contents
London, England; various ships at sea.
Box 1, Folder 15
Percy Wright Paget letter to Richard N. Vyvyan
1904 January 10
Scope and Contents
South Wellfleet Station, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Box 1, Folder 16
Richard N. Vyvyan letter to Beatrice Marconi
1903 January 7
Box 1, Folder 17
Dorchester transmitter hall: photograph
1928
Box 1, Folder 18
First aerial system at the Cape Cod wireless station: photograph
undated
Box 1, Folder 19
Glace Bay Cape Breton Nova Scotia wireless station: photograph
1905
Box 1, Folder 20
Granite column erected by the Marconi Company to commemorate the site of the
former Poldhu Wireless Station at Poldhu Cove, Cornwall: photograph
1937 November
Box 1, Folder 21
Operators and staff at Marconi wireless station, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia:
picture postcard
undated
Box 1, Folder 22
Newspaper clippings
1909-1937
