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Papers concerning company interests in Australia, and Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd.

MS. Marconi 385

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Title

Papers concerning company interests in Australia, and Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd.

Shelfmark

MS. Marconi 385

Summary

Comprises:

Letter and report by G.P. Stevens, Manager and Electrician at the Australian General Post Office, concerning experiments on the possibility of wireless communication between Rottnest Island and Fremantle, 1899

Articles on wireless telegraphy with specific reference to Australia and New Zealand, 1906

Papers relating to a visit by James Swinburne to Australian stations, including Hobart and Melbourne, including letters from Fisk, Denison and Swinburne, and photographs of equipment at Hobart Station, 1913

Statements of claim, defence and counterclaim in case of J.W. Hamilton v. Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, 1913

Booklet on the Marconi School of Wireless Telegraphy, Sydney, c. 1915

Correspondence and cuttings about first press messages sent to Australia by wireless, 1921

Report by Tremellen on the initial results of an Australian signal measurement expedition, with correspondence and news cutting about the full report, 1922-5

AWA brochures on wireless in Australia, 1921, 1922, 1925

Miscellaneous booklets, articles and cuttings, 1927-31

Booklet on 'An Australian Factory in an Australian Garden', about the AWA Radio-Electric Works in Sydney, c. 1945

Date

1899-c. 1945

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box

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Collection contents

The Marconi Archives

Papers relating to Marconi and the development of wireless telegraphy

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