Description
A collection of material related to the
Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi and his chief engineer Richard
Norman Vyvyan.
Background
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.
Extent
0.42 Linear Feet
(1 box)
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