Level: Category
Sound Archive
Level: Fonds
BBC ESSEX
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Title: Marconi and his Wireless Company - The Early Work
Speaker (s): Marconi, Marchesa; Hockley, Aubrey; Hunter, Stan; Bohannon, Frank; Brown, Stan; Colborn, Cecil; Collins, Winifred; Ward, Martin
Date of recording: 1986
Length of tape: 114 minutes
Depositor: BBC Essex
Restrictions: BBC Essex
Synopsis of tape: Seven interviews about the early work of Marconi Wireless Company in Chelmsford; Marchesa Marconi - personality and character of husband - his ideas, projects, objectives, achievements (19 minutes); Aubrey Hockley - Lathe Operator and Senior Foreman Marconi Company from 1910 - working conditions - leading engineers and personalities - Writtle transmitter - Dame Nellie Melba broadcast (15 minutes); Stan Hunter - engineer, came to work in Chelmsford when 40 on new project for ships - worked with pioneer Captain H J Round when latter in his eighties (15 mins); Frank Bohannon - telephonist and clerk in company from 1911 - products - Broomfield, Chelmsford, Writtle, transmitters - Dame Nellie Melba broadcast - contacts with H.J. Round and other pioneers - transmitter testing in New Street (30 mins); Stan Brown - assembled transmitters from 1918 - redundancies - leading personalities - first transmitter for North Weald Post Office - first short wave transmitter installed for League of Nations in Geneva 1921- worked with H.J. Round (20 mins); Cecil Colborn - Electrical Engineer at Marconi from c. 1920 - one of the first BBC Broadcast engineers - leading engineering personalities (15 mins); Winifred Collins - singer employed by Marconi 1920 for broadcast tests - Dame Nellie Melba broadcast (10 mins)
Dates of Creation:
1986

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Subjects Engineering Marconi and his Wireless Company - The Early Work 1986
Subjects Engineering Marconi and his Wireless Company - The Early Work 1986
Subjects Telecommunications Marconi and his Wireless Company - The Early Work 1986
Document Types Sound recording Marconi and his Wireless Company - The Early Work 1986