03440ntmaa2200445Ii 4500 20181217104813.0 181217s1910 ie c 000 0 eng d (OCoLC)on1079058651 SMI eng rda SMI SMI+ ltsk 20181217 MSS 002098 A Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937, author, correspondent. Guglielmo Marconi letter to Lord Aberdeen, dated Marconi Transatlantic Station, Clifden, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland, 7 July 1910. 1910 July 7. 1 sheet, folded (4 unnumbered pages) ; 26 cm + 1 portrait + 1 business card + 1 autograph text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia sheet nb rdacarrier Title supplied by cataloger. Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Marconi Transatlantic Station, Clifden, Galway, Ireland. Accompanied by 3 supplementary materials: 1 black and white halftone print (1 sheet) of a photographic portrait of Marconi with his signature, with a newspaper clipping dated December 13, 1951, attached to the verso; 1 printed business card (1 sheet) reading "Chev. Guglielmo Marconi, Officier de la Couronne d'Italie"; and 1 autograph (1 sheet) in black ink on white cardboard. Use by appointment with Dibner Library staff. Letter to "Lord Aberdeen" (John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon) thanking him for his praise of the wireless telegram and for an invitation to visit him in Dublin, and mentioning Marconi's efforts to get the British Post Office to label wireless telegrams from North America with the place of origin rather than by the receiving station. Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system. SCDIRB copy (barcode 39088020039749) is the gift of H.W. Lende, Jr. and has Lende accession number M-14. SCDIRB copy has source: Charles Hamilton Galleries, New York, October 29, 1982. SCDIRB copy is housed in an archival box together with other manuscripts from the H.W. Lende, Jr. Manuscript Collection, filed in Dibner accession number order. Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937. Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937 Portraits. Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company. Telegraph, Wireless Marconi system. Manuscripts (documents). aat Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Marquess of, 1847-1934, addressee. Lende, H. W., Jr., donor, former owner. DSI Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, associated name. Great Britain. Post Office, associated name. H.W. Lende, Jr. Manuscript Collection (Smithsonian Libraries). DSI Ireland Clifden (Galway). naf Smithsonian Libraries, Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Constitution Avenue & 12th St. NW, Washington, DC, USA 20013-7012 https://library.si.edu/libraries/dibner-library-history-science-and-technology sc scdirb 39088020039749 GIH FY2019 loc rare 1101754