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[Fwd: [nuncius] Marconi collection]

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Viviane Quirke <[log in to unmask]>

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Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:00:20 -0000

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This is great news

Viviane


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Subject: [nuncius] Marconi collection
From:    "Robert Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:    Tue, December 7, 2004 10:43 pm
To:      [log in to unmask]
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The following information was released by the University on 6 December


Marconi Corporation plc and The University of Oxford announce an agreement
 to transfer the historic Marconi Collection to The Bodleian Library and
The  Museum of the History of Science, both part of the University of
Oxford.  Marconi has agreed to gift the Collection to the University where
it will  have a safe and secure future, preserving the integrity of this
unique  collection. Through the generosity of the Wireless Preservation
Society a  full time archivist will be appointed to catalogue the
Collection over the  next three years.
Dating from 1895, this is an unrivalled collection of Marconi artefacts, 
apparatus and printed material, much of which formed the basis of early 
wireless communication.
This includes:
The early patents, such as the famous “7777” patent which, in 1900, solved
 the problemof multi-station operation without mutual interference; ·     
 Apparatus used in the first transatlantic wireless transmission of  1901;
·       A wealth of historical documents including telegrams sent during 
the Titanic disaster of 1912; whose subsequent Board of Enquiry endorsed 
the recommendations of Guglielmo Marconi, fundamentally improving safety
at  sea and saving countless lives, and
·       Items relating to the birth of broadcasting, such as the
microphone  used by the legendary Australian diva, Dame Nellie Melba to
broadcast the  world's first live recital in 1920.
The Museum of the History of Science will put on permanent public display 
some of the over 250 artefacts from the Collection. In an adjacent
building  The Bodleian Library will house the thousands of papers, letters
and other  printed material going back to 1895, making them available for
viewing and  research access. The BAFTA award-winning website
marconicalling.com , based  on the Marconi Collection, is also to be
transferred to the University. Oxford University have commenced planning
for a major exhibition of items  from the Collection in the Spring of
2006.
It is expected that Oxford University will work together with the Essex 
Record Office and the Museums Service in Chelmsford such that a
representative set of historic items from the Collection are on display at
 an appropriate location in the town, the original home of the Marconi 
Company from 1898 and the acknowledged “Birthplace of Radio”.


Further details available via the 'News release' link on the University's 
home-page (http://www.ox.ac.uk)


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