Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America | American company | Britannica (original) (raw)

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formation by Marconi

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  In Guglielmo Marconi: Education and early radio work
  (changed in 1900 to Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd.). During the first years, the company’s efforts were devoted chiefly to showing the full possibilities of radiotelegraphy. A further step was taken in 1899 when a wireless station was established at South Foreland, England, for communicating with Wimereux in France,…
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significance to RCA Corporation

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  In RCA Corporation
  …Company in 1919 to acquire Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America (incorporated in 1899). A subsidiary of a British-owned company, Marconi Wireless at that time was the only company capable of handling commercial transatlantic radio communications, and General Electric took it over with the assistance of the U.S. Navy Department,…
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