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" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
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
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