Marconi (Guglielmo) Papers, 1900-1937

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Summary

Title:
Guglielmo Marconi papers
Dates:
1900-1937
Abstract:
A collection of material related to the Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi and his chief engineer Richard Norman Vyvyan.
Extent:
0.42 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Guglielmo Marconi papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

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.

Acquisition information:
Purchased for the Huntington from Inlibris Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH by the Library Collectors' Council, March 2021.
Processing information:

Processed by Gayle M. Richardson in September 2022.

Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Gayle M. Richardson
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-09-21 10:08:16 -0700 .

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Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Guglielmo Marconi papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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