Images Dated 7th November 2005

Marconi radio apparatus

Marconi radio equipment on a ship. The equipment includes headphones and a Morse code key (lower centre). The equipment is labelled (left-right): continuous wave transmitter; direction finder; receiver; spark transmitter (all on left wall); emergency transmitter (right wall). Marconi patented his radio equipment in 1896. His initial aim had been to allow communication with those at sea. He achieved the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in 1901. Photographed for The March of Commerce (1927), volume 4 of The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States, a 15-volume series that commemorated 150 years since the founding of the USA in 1776

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County Court House Or Independence Hall, Philadelphia Pennsylvania In 1870S

County Court House Or Independence Hall, Philadelphia Pennsylvania In 1870S. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil By Rev Samuel Manning Circa 1880

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Pepperell Near Boston Massachusetts In 1870S. Home Of Historian William Hickling Prescott

Pepperell Near Boston Massachusetts In 1870S. Home Of Historian William Hickling Prescott. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil By Rev Samuel Manning Circa 1880

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