Correspondence concerning preparations for the transatlantic signal attempt, Oct-Dec 1901

File

MS. Marconi 155

Held at the Weston Library

Includes:

Correspondence about finding a site at Cape Race and obtaining masts for Cape Race and St. John's, Oct-Nov 1901
Correspondence and papers about obtaining balloons and hydrogen to fill them, and shipping these to Newfoundland, including sample of material for the balloons, Nov 1901
Letter from Flood-Page advising Marconi of a letter of introduction to Sir Cavendish Boyle, Governor of Newfoundland, Nov 1901
Correspondence discussing arrangements for Marconi, Kemp and Paget's travel to Newfoundland, Nov 1901
List, in Marconi's hand, of necessary apparatus for the receiving station, [Nov] 1901

Dates

1 folder

MS. Marconi 155

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

Contact:
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk