Marconi collection, 1898-1986.

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Marconi collection, 1898-1986.

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Correspondence, clippings, programs, brochures, and photographs about the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition on Guglielmo Marconi, 1893-1984; photographs of Marconi's shack, now located at Rocky Point, N.Y., 1980; copy of letter from Maria Christina Margona, Rome, Italy to Mr. Taylor of the RCA Corporation, Rocky Point, N.Y. about the shack, 1958; clippings, Marconi stock certificates, commemorative envelopes, copies of postcards and photographs about Marconi's life, The Marconiville Hotel (Copaigue, N.Y.), 1898-1986; typed essays "From 'S' to '$'" by Patrick B. McKeown about overseas transmittal in winter of 1900/1901, 1977, and "Guglielmo Marconi and the First Wireless Radio" by Patricia Mongelli, 1976; and various artifacts.

.2 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Village of Babylon Historical & Preservation Society (Babylon, N.Y.)

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Experiments in wireless telegraph were conducted by Marconi from a tiny shack located in the Village of Babylon. From the description of Marconi collection, 1898-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155536685 ...

Margona, Maria Christina.

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Marconiville Hotel (Copaigue, N.Y.)

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McKeown, Patrick

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Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

RCA Corporation

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The Radio Corporation of America was incorporated in Delaware on October 17, 1919, and changed its name to RCA Corporation on May 9, 1969. For over fifty years it was one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, phonographs, televisions, and a wide array of consumer and military electronics products. Through subsidiaries, it operated the country's first radiotelegraph, radiotelephone and radio facsimile systems, as well as its pioneer radio and television networ...

Mongelli, Patricia.

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Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937

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Guglielmo Marconi, Italian-born physicist and inventor of wireless transmission. From the description of Guglielmo Marconi manuscript material : 1 item, 1899 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 727146246 From the guide to the Guglielmo Marconi manuscript material : 1 item, 1899, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian physicist who spent much of his professional life in Grea...