Correspondence and papers concerning Glace Bay and other Canadian stations

Title

Correspondence and papers concerning Glace Bay and other Canadian stations

Shelfmark

MS. Marconi 192

Summary

Includes:

Agreements with the Canadian Government relating to wireless telegraph services, 1902, 1911, 1915

List and map of Canadian stations, c. 1905

Letters of attorney for Marconi to act for the company in Canada, 1909-10

Correspondence between Marconi and Sir Edward Morris, Prime Minster of Newfoundland, about a proposed wireless telegraph installation at St. John's, Newfoundland, 1911

Plan of the Glace Bay Station Estate, 1911

Correspondence between Marconi and Vyvyan about work at Glace Bay, 1902-3

Draft letter from Marconi to Moberly Bell at The Times about temporary loss of the news service from Glace Bay because of problems with equipment, 1903

Diary by Eileen O'Brien of her visit to Glace Bay with Guglielmo and Beatrice Marconi, 1907

Draft letter from Marconi to Cuthbert Hall about a fire at Glace Bay and a letter of sympathy from Sydney Buxton, the Postmaster General, about the fire, 1909

Regular reports on the working of the Glace Bay Station and on the construction and working of the Louisberg Station, 1912-16

Correspondence between Marconi and Isaacs about liaison with the Canadian company, 1914

Correspondence and reports on interference from the Telefunken station at Nauen, 1914-16

News cutting on the obsolescence of the Glace Bay and Louisberg stations, 1926

Postcards of the short wave transmitter at the Drummondville Station, Quebec, c. 1926?

Date

1902-16, 1926

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box