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Early Small Coherer, by Guglielmo Marconi, Italy, c. 1895

Inventory Number 98899


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.98899

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation.
Primary inscriptions
None
Object type
Radio communication
Dimensions
Diameter: 15mm Height: 140mm
Inventory No
98899
Accession Number
2004-9/524

Description

Early Small Coherer, probably Marconi's first coherer. Basic coherer in cylindrical glass tubes, main tube is of thermometer tube-type style with smaller tube attached with elastic wire wrapping. With copper? wire wrapped around middle of longer tube. With another length of thermometer tube.