Excellent, but what about sharing that NBC show? Curious ears want to hear!

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Quinn" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Marconi


> There is another recording of Marconi held by the NFSA in Australia. It can
> be heard on-line through the NFSA site. It was a broadcast on 14th December
> 1935 supposedly from Paris. The occasion was the dedication of a monument
> at Wahroonga, New South Wales to the memory of the Australian radio pioneer
> Sir Ernest Fisk the founder of AWA. It was at Wahroonga at Fisk's
> residence that the first wireless message from England to Australia was
> received on 22nd September 1918.
> Best Wishes
> Mike Quinn
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chuck:
>>
>> Would you be able to put a stream or MP3 of item #2 online? I'd love to
>> hear it. I know many Amateur Radio operators and am related to two of them.
>> I know they, too, would love to hear that NBC show about Marconi.
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard L. Hess" <
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>> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 12:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Marconi
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi, Chuck,
>>>
>>> Thanks for posting this...your #2 reverence caught my eye with Harold
>>> Beverage who was one of the major unsung radio pioneers. More about him is
>>> at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Beverage
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-03-09 11:45 AM, Chuck Howell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Back in the office after snow-induced absence and pulled up this item in
>>>> our audio holdings -
>>>>
>>>> au ac orig 113
>>>> 1) Guglielmo Marconi. Early radio transmission development. Side 1:
>>>> Speaking from his yacht near Genoa, Italy; as recorded at Sydney,
>>>> Australia, in transmission received on March 26, 1930. Runs 5:45.
>>>> 2) "The Human Side of Marconi," as aired on NBC Red radio network, July
>>>> 24, 1937. Program covers Marconi's contributions to radio as told by John
>>>> Cowden (RCA), H.E. Hallborg (RCA), Paul Godley (amateur or ham radio
>>>> operator), Harold Beverage (Institute of Radio Engineers, or IRE).
>>>>
>>>> Not sure of the sound quality of cut 1. Let me know if it is of
>>>> interest...
>>>>
>>>> Chuck
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Howell, CA
>>>> Collection Leader
>>>> Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture
>>>> Hornbake Library North, RM 3210
>>>> University of Maryland
>>>> College Park, MD 20742
>>>>
>>> --
>>> Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask]
>>> Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800
>>> http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
>>> Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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