Papers concerning company interests in Australia, and Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd., 1899-c. 1945

File

MS. Marconi 385

Held at the Weston Library

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

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MS. Marconi 385

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