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12 unusual facts about Marconi Company


2MT

Transmissions began on 14 February 1922 from an ex-Army hut next to the Marconi laboratories at Writtle, near Chelmsford in Essex.

A Vlaicu III

 III, which had been built on contract to the Marconi Company for experiments with aerial radio, was only partially finished.

Airship Industries Skyship 600

The control system developed by Marconi is "fly by light" — using optical fibres to carry the control signals between gondola and the control surfaces.

Bekonscot

Names of shops and other features include humorous puns, such as Lee Key Plumbers' Merchants ('Lee Key' = 'leaky'), Sam and Ella's Butchers ('salmonella') and the Mark Owney Wireless and Gramophone stores ('Marconi').

CMC Electronics

In 1948 English Electric purchased the UK based Marconi Company and in 1953 acquired 50.6% of Canadian Marconi Company.

Composer-Tron

This invention was one of the first major steps that combined the producing efforts of the RCA Synthesizer, by Harry Olsen and Hebert Belar with the Marconi Company of America.

The Composer-Tron was developed by Osmond Kendal for the Canadian Marconi Company in 1953.

Kenneth Bruce Ross

During his time in the Army, Ross was fortunate enough to work with the Marconi radios utilized by the Signal Corps.

Public address system

By the early 1920s, Marconi had established a department dedicated to public address and began producing loudspeakers and amplifiers to match a growing demand.

RAF Trimingham

In May 1996 the Marconi Type 91 'Martello' radar at Trimingham was sold to the Turkish Ministry of Defence and it was replaced by what used to be known as No 86 Signals Unit, with a Type 93 (Plessey type ADGE-305, NATO designation TGRI 50011) that had been moved from Hopton when that base was closed.

ROTOR

The work was mainly carried out by the Marconi Wireless and Telegraph Company in several phases, called ROTOR 1, ROTOR 2 and ROTOR 3.

Telenor Maritim Radio

The Telegraphy Administration took contact with the Marconi Company in 1899 to inquire about purchasing wireless systems.


Cwm Dyli

Electricity produced here was also used to power the Long Wave Wireless Telegraph transmitting station built by Marconi in 1912 near Waunfawr.

Hydrosila

The system successfully functions at such industrial world leaders as Boeing, FIAT, Mercedes, Marconi, Komatsu, Śkoda, Volkswagen, Volvo, Hyundai, KAMAZ, BELAZ, URALAZ and others.

Meteosat

The satellites were manufactured by a consortium COSMOS, with Aérospatiale in its Cannes Mandelieu Space Centre, as Prime, and included Matra, MBB, Selenia Spazio, Marconi Company.

Vintage amateur radio

There is considerable interest in vintage military and commercial radio equipment among EU amateur radio operators, especially gear from British manufacturers such as Marconi, Racal, Eddystone, Pye, and a variety of Russian, German, Canadian, British RAF and British Army equipment, such as the well known Wireless Set No. 19.