Marconi: Between Earth & Air

Communication

Hermeet Gill

Spark Gap + Morse S - Hermeet Gill

Spark Gap + Morse S - Hermeet Gill

From sparks & ringing bells ... to messages & communication
From sparks & ringing bells ... to messages & communication

Morse Key
Marconi Company · English · c. 1900
Inventory № 86892

Marconi used this Morse Key
for his early experiments,
transmitting messages
on the south coast of England.

A Morse Key is a spring-loaded switch
which completes an electrical circuit,
resulting in an on/off radio signal.

This was the first type of key designed specifically for wireless communication.

Because wireless technology needed stronger currents than wired telegraphy, the contacts are larger and the operating knob is better insulated to protect the operator from electric shocks.

A sheet of early signals received at Needles Station, The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

A sheet of early signals received at Needles Station, The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

v orange, orange, v love, marconi vv, red hurrah, orange
A sheet of early signals received at Needles Station, The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

A sheet of early signals received at Needles Station, The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

v orange, orange, v love, marconi vv, red hurrah, orange

The Wireless Telegraph Signal Company

Signals received at the Royal Needles Hotel
from Madeira House, Bournemouth on March 3rd 1898 by Marconi's System of Wireless Telegraphy
– G S Kemp

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