The first direct wireless messages from England to Australia [picture] / AWA
- Bib ID:
- 3421834
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia)
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1918
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.1 x 23.1 cm.
- Biography/History:
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"These messages were transmitted by arrangement with Senatore G. Marconi, G.C.V.O., D.Sc. & Godfrey C. Isaacs Esq. Managing Director; Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited, from the Marconi Transatlantic Station at Carnarvon, Wales at 3.15a.m. & 3.25a.m. (Greenwich mean time) September 22nd, 1918. Received Instantaneously at 1.15p.m. & 1.25p.m. (Sydney time) by Mr. E.T. Fisk, Member Institute of Radio Engineers & Managing Director; Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited, - at his Experimental Wireless Station, Wahroonga, New South Wales, with apparatus designed and manufactured in Sydney by Mr. Fisk and the Staff of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited.
- Notes:
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- Photograph includes 3 small oval portraits of W.M. Hughes, Sir Joseph Cook, G. Marconi and E.T. Fisk (4.4 x 3.6 cm.).
- Inscriptions: "Facsimiles of the first direct wireless messages from Britain to Australia transmitted from the Marconi station at Caernarvon, Wales, and received at Wahroonga, New South Wales, by AWA. (Credit AWA)" and "Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. Photograph" on verso.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137037959
- Subject:
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- Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937 -- Portraits
- Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952 -- Portraits
- Cook, Joseph, Sir, 1860-1947 -- Portraits
- Fisk, Ernest, Sir, 1886-1965 -- Photographs
- Telegraph, Wireless -- Marconi system -- Photographs
- Radio -- Australia -- Photographs
- Radio -- History -- Photographs
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1918
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