Demonstrations to Lord Kelvin and Lord Tennyson, with related items, 1898

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MS. Marconi 142

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Comprises:

Note, in Lord Kelvin's hand, of the 'ether' or wireless message he sent in Jun 1898 [the first ever paid wireless telegram] from the Royal Needles Hotel for the information of James Blyth, a colleague in Glasgow, with a further note (on a Post Office Telegraphs form) instructing that the same message be sent to Lord Rayleigh at Downing Street and Preece at the GPO, 1898
Draft letter from Marconi to Lord Kelvin, thanking him for proposing Marconi for membership of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and advising of the removal of the Bournemouth Station, 1898
Note (on Post Office Telegraphs form) of message from Lord Tennyson to Tennyson, Eton College, sent 'by Marconi's aether telegraph Alum Bay to Bournemouth paid commercially thence by wire', 1898
Record of signals to and from the Alum Bay Station, including Kelvin's and Tennyson's, Apr-May 1898
News cuttings about experiments on the Isle of Wight and South Coast, 1898

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MS. Marconi 142

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