Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ADS in Italian on three sides of two 4.25 x 5.5 cards. Marconi provides a brief synopsis of his development of the radio telegraph, in full:
“1901
1902 Carlo Alberto
1904 Company [?]
Contributed to the set-up of Coltano Station 1905 - 1910
Dedicated to the development of the R. T. (radio telegraph) services in Italy and especially of the Radio Maritime services in other countries also. From 1927 the Radio Maritime services have been managed by an Italian enterprise, the IT RAD Maritime Society.
From 1928 I did not take active part in the administration of the Marconi Company, to be able to apply myself to my technical work and to other tasks that have been entrusted to me by the Italian (deleted) Fascist government.
Italian R. T. personnel have more benefits than the English personnel, especially regarding sicknesses and in case they are fired.”
In fine condition.
In this pristine presentation, Marconi provides a unique biography of his greatest invention and his dedication to “the development of the R. T. (radio telegraph) services in Italy and especially of the Radio Maritime services in other countries also,” enabling him to transmit messages across the Atlantic. The “Carlo Alberto” referenced was the Italian Navy battleship from where, in 1902, Marconi conducted wireless experiments, successfully transmitting radio communications across the mountain chains of Europe.
From his first wireless station at Coltano, located in Italy, he exchanged communications between Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, introducing the world to a new era of radio telegraph technology between “1905–1910,” which marked the “set-up” of the station. Years later, Marconi would align himself with Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, becoming fully immersed in the Italian Fascist party in 1923. In 1928, Marconi would take a step back from his namesake company “to be able to apply myself to my technical work and to other tasks that have been entrusted to me by the…Fascist government.” In 1930, Mussolini appointed Marconi president of the Royal Academy of Italy, making the inventor a member of the Fascist Grand Council. An exceptionally rare, firsthand account from the acclaimed inventor who devised a way for words to walk on water.
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