Historic Marconi Collection on the Move

The Marconi Corporation plc and The University of Oxford announced on 6 December that the historic Marconi Collection is to be transferred 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. Oxford University has commenced planning for a major exhibition of items from the Marconi Collection in the spring of 2006.

The Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society made use of some of the items from the Collection when it ran special event station GB2MT in 2001 to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of spanning the Atlantic by radio. Many contacts were made using original Morse keys dating from the late 1890s and early 1900s.

Source: GB2RS News - Courtesy of the RSGB

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