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Tuned Transmitter, by Guglielmo Marconi, English, 1899

Inventory Number 98396


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.98396

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation.
Primary inscriptions
None
Object type
Radio communication
Dimensions
Height: 200mm Width: 200mm Depth: 100mm
Inventory No
98396
Accession Number
2004-9/464

Description

Marconi's First Tuned Transmitter: a tuned circuit with insulated cable wound around a square dovetailed wooden frame containing a Leyden jar and brass-ball spark gap. With change-over plug. Previously associated and catalogued with Newton Induction Coil (Inv. Num. 69748).