Documents concerning various installations in Britain and overseas

Title

Documents concerning various installations in Britain and overseas

Shelfmark

MS. Marconi 197

Summary

Comprises:

Copies of telegrams and original circular letter about successful communication between the Lizard and St. Catherine's, Isle of Wight, 1901

Letter from Fleming about need for secrecy over Niton-Lizard work, 1901

Correspondence with Hall and Gray about ships (including the Kaiser Wilhelm) signalling to the Lizard and other shore stations, 1901

List of apparatus sent to the Lizard, 1902

Correspondence from Fleming about experimental simultaneous transmission between more than two stations including the Lizard and Poldhu, 1903

Correspondence relating to wireless telegraphy in the Isles of Scilly, including the Admiralty Station, a proposed vessel-based station, and a temporary service between the Admiralty Station and Poldhu owing to the breaking down of the Post Office cable, 1901-4

Correspondence about a proposed station at Goonhilly, 1904

Draft letter from Marconi to Kemp about his departure for Crookhaven to continue long distance experiments between there and Poldhu, and giving instructions about work required at Poldhu, 1901

Letters from P.J. Woodward reporting on experimental work at Crookhaven, 1901

Correspondence from Hall to Marconi about an agreement to receive and transmit messages from HMS Ophir at Crookhaven, 1901

Correspondence about possible sites for stations at Ennismore and Cashel, 1904-5

Letters and reports from E.A. Pochin about the Dovercourt Station, 1901

Report of experiments between Frinton and Withernsea stations, 1902

Telegrams about arranging accommodation at Frinton for Marconi, 1904

Papers concerning the Broomfield Station, Chelmsford, including reports on experimental work, plans and details of masts, and discussion (especially with the GPO) of a wireless service to Amsterdam, with later discussion of obstructions by the Post Office of early wireless schemes, 1904-5, 1924

Reports and correspondence from the station at Waterloo, Liverpool, 1906

Letter from Kemp at the Waterloo Station, reporting on work there and at the Seaforth Barracks Station, 1910

Letters from Kemp to Marconi about setting up a station at Fraserburgh, and about a break-in there, 1903, 1906

Papers relating to wireless stations at Coltano and Bari, 1902-5

Papers concerning the provision of wireless stations and services in Russia, 1901-22

Correspondence concerning shares in the Societé Russe de Telegraphes et de Telephones sans Fil, 1925-9

Correspondence about a concession for the establishment of a wireless station in the Bermudas, for which Fessenden was said to have applied, 1904

Date

1901-29

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box