Marconis Collection

Alexandra Palace, the home of the B. B. C. The large transmitt
Alexandra Palace as the home of the B.B.C television service in 1936 showing the mast and transmitting aerials for vision and sound

SS Lucania - Cunard
SS Lucania. This Cunarder is the first ship to be equipped with Signor Marconis wireless system : for a while she holds the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing. Date: circa 1920s

Guglielmo Marconi with his Assistants Kemp and Paget, behind is the experiments kite. Date: 12th December 1901

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), Italian inventor and electrical engineer, shown in photograph with his apparatus, after receiving signals at Newfoundland

Transatlantic success, the forest of the telegraph poles at Poldhu Station, Cornwall, from which the first ever wireless message was sent across the Atlantic to Newfoundland. Date: 12th December 1901

Marconis wireless telegraph message, Dover 1899
Guglielmo Marconi, shown here in the photograph with his latest invention, sending a wireless telegraphy from Dover Town Hall to South Foreland Lighthouse, through four miles of cliffs

The spark that speaks across the Atlantic to Canada, Guglielmo Marconi transmitter Date: 1907

Lucania Steamship
This Cunarder is the first ship to be equipped with Signor Marconis wireless system : for a while she holds the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing. Date: 1901

Broadcasting a violin recital with sound and vision. Two television cameras record the performer from different angles. The microphone is suspended to obtain the sound recording

The control room of the Baird apparatus, showing the vision
Scene in the heart of the control room of the Baird apparatus. Special tests of reception of the B.B.C from Alexandra Palace of synchronised television

Marconis new movable radio-telegraphic station, designed by Marquis Solari, Signor Marconis secretary. The station was used for traction or for generating electricity for wireless telegraphy

Marconis wireless telephone
A wireless telephone transmitter and receiver from 1919 produced by the Marconi Company, capable of transmitting speech two thousand miles from Ireland to Nova Scotia

Marconi Set 1930S
Marconis Large Screen Projection Model has so big a picture (22" x18" - 60x50cm) that it is not recommended for use in domestic rooms of average size

Watching TV 1930S
The cover of Marconis catalogue shows a family huddled close round their set, which has a picture size of 10" x8" (25x20cm) : prices range from 29 to 200 guineas

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