![]() In 1967 Marconi took over Stratton and Company to form Eddystone Radio. It also owned Marconi Instruments, Sanders Electronics, Eddystone Radio and Marconi Italiana (based in Genoa, Italy). The divisions were placed into three groups: Telecommunications, Components and Electronics.Īt this time the Marconi Company had facilities at New Street Chelmsford, Baddow, Basildon, Billericay, and Writtle as well as in Wembley, Gateshead and Hackbridge. These had expanded to 13 manufacturing divisions by 1965 when a further reorganisation took place. In 1948 the company was reorganised into four divisions: Communications, Broadcasting, Aeronautics and Radar. Operations as English Electric subsidiary Įnglish Electric acquired the Marconi Company in 1946 which complemented its other operations heavy electrical engineering, aircraft and its railway traction business. In 1939, the Marconi Research Laboratories at Great Baddow were founded and in 1941 there was a buyout of Marconi- Ekco Instruments to form Marconi Instruments. After the war, URI became the RAI, which lives on to this day. ![]() Along with private entrepreneurs, Marconi company formed in 1924 the Unione Radiofonica Italiana (URI), which was granted by Mussolini's regime a monopoly of radio broadcasts in 1924. The company and factory was moved to New Street Works in 1912 to allow for production expansion in light of the RMS Titanic disaster. In 1900 the company's name was changed to "Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company" and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Training College was established in 1901. It was the dominant radio communications provider in the US until the formation of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in 1919. The subsidiary Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, also called "American Marconi", was founded in 1899. ![]() Compagnie de Télégraphie sans Fil (C.T.S.F.), founded 1900 in the City of Brussels.Marconi International Marine Communication Co.Formation of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America (assets acquired by RCA in 1920).Formation of the British Broadcasting Company (later to become the independent BBC).Transatlantic radio broadcasting between Clifden, Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, October 17, 1907.The diode vacuum tube in 1904 ( Fleming). ![]()
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