Seven Press Photographs of Italian Inventor Guglielmo Marconi, with a 1902 Article about Him from The Century Magazine.
Canada, United Kingdom, and United States: c. 1902–1930s. Seven photographs, mainly measuring 5 x 7 inches, with six double-sided pages of The Century Magazine. Photos with Brown Brothers stamps and manuscript captions verso; with normal wear. Photos with Brown Brothers stamps and manuscript captions verso; with normal wear. Magazine pages with marginal damage and wear. Overall excellent. Item #List3030
Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) was an Italian inventor and politician, mainly known for creating a wireless telegraph system, for which he won a Nobel Prize in Physics with German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun in 1909. Offered here are seven photographs and an article about Marconi and his wireless inventions. The article, “Marconi and His Transatlantic Signal” by P. T. McGrath, appeared in 1902 in The Century Magazine; it seems to be missing the first two pages. Three of the photographs are portraits of Marconi, one dated 1902 and two of him as an older man. The remaining four are of Marconi at work; one is captioned verso “Clifden, England, from where first trans-atlantic wireless message was sent.” (Note that the signal was not sent from Clifden, which is in Ireland, but rather Poldhu in Cornwall, England.) Another shows four men with Marconi’s kite on Signal Hill in St. John’s, Canada, the location to which the transatlantic signal was sent. The kite was used to lift a radio antenna 400 feet in the air, enabling reception of the signal, which was received successfully for the first time in December of 1901. The significance of the transmission, and Marconi’s work generally, in the history of global communication is near-impossible to overstate.
Price: $600.00