Spies of Wireless Point.The Eastern Telegraph Co and Marconi's early wireless experiments in Cornwall at Poldhu and Bass Point
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- Author(s) Packer, John E
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2005
- Pages 23pp; illus
- Publisher Cable & Wireless Porthcurno & Collections Trust
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Narrative account of Eastern Telegraph Co's [based at Porthcurno] eavesdropping on the early wireless communications work of Marconi at Polhu in order to access its effectiveness, c1902-2, and potential competition giving rise to the company's first steps to introduce wireless telegraphy, 1903-5