Science
EARLY SIGNED PHOTO OF MARCONI
MARCONI
(Guglielmo, 1874-1937, Wireless Pioneer)
Vintage Albumen portrait photograph signed and dated
showing him head and shoulders in semi profile, 5¾ x 4 in mount 10 x 8 in wooden frame with gilt slip, 12 x 9½, no place, 11th January
Item Date: 1906
Background
Marconi was born in Bologna of an Italian father and English mother. He invented the radio antenna for electromagnetic waves in 1896 and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. In the 1930s he established a worldwide network for the British Government. Signatures of Marconi are rare.
Stock No. 43088