This marked the beginning of a series of negotiations through which GE would buy the American Marconi company and then incorporate what would be called the Radio Corporation of America.

Accused of speculating in Marconi shares on the inside information that they were about to be awarded a key government contract ( which would have caused them to increase in value ), he told the House of Commons that he had not speculated in the shares of " that company ", which was not the whole truth as he had in fact speculated in shares of Marconi's American sister company.

Evans stated that in 2004 that his fear was that an American defence contractor would acquire Marconi and challenge both BAe and DASA.

It was widely anticipated that DaimlerChrysler Aerospace would merge with British Aerospace ( BAe ) to form a Anglo-German aerospace giant, however BAe chose instead to merge with GEC's defence electronics business, Marconi Electronic Systems.

It would have annual sales of £ 300 million, with £ 8. 7 million in assets from Marconi Space Systems and £ 10. 7 million in assets from Matra Espace.

However, many in the Air Ministry did not believe that the system was actually in use, and Frederick Lindemann, leading scientific adviser to the government, claimed that any such system would not be able to follow the curvature of the Earth, though T S Eckersley of the Marconi company had claimed it could.

Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph, even believed that the radio would “ make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous ” ( Narodny, 1912, p. 145 ).

Eventually, numerous licences were given to: Halifax — the Finlay MacDonald group — CJCH-TV ; Montreal — the Canadian Marconi Co .— CFCF-TV ; Ottawa — Ernie Bushnell's group — CJOH-TV ; Toronto — Baton — the Bassett group — CFTO-TV ; Winnipeg — the Moffat group — CJAY-TV ( CKY-TV ); Edmonton — the CBC ( CBXT ), ( which would relieve CFRN-TV of its CBC affiliation ); Calgary — the Love organization — CFCN-TV ; Vancouver — the Vantel group — CHAN-TV ( BCTV ).

The GEC acquired part of GPT ( August 1998 ) which became Marconi Communications in 1999, would be amalgamated into both Ericisson and Telent in 2005 when they acquire its parent company-Marconi Corporation plc, formed by 2003 restructuring of Marconi plc.

When the Admiralty received the two reports it was the pioneer of wireless telegraphy Captain ( later, Admiral Sir ) Henry Jackson, then commanding HMS Vulcan, whose opinion led a senior naval officer to report, " it would be unworthy to try to evade the Marconi Company's patent.

At the time of the acquisition Ericsson announced that they would be rebranding Marconi assets Ericsson and retaining Marconi only as the name of the Italian research facility.

Also in attendance was Guglielmo Marconi and Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who would become Pope Pius XII Its first director was physicist Giuseppe Gianfranceschi, who was also the president of the Accademia dei Nuovi Lincei.

Combined, they would be one of the few companies able to compete with Marconi or English Electric on an equal footing.

The acquisition was as a major expansion of GEC's defence division, GEC-Marconi ( later Marconi Electronic Systems ), however seven months later GEC announced the demerger of Marconi Electronic Systems ( including the North American defence businesses ) which would then merge with British Aerospace ( BAe ) to form BAE Systems.

About 20 years later, John Ambrose Fleming ( scientific adviser to the Marconi Company

Marconi later transmitted the wireless signals across the Atlantic between Poldhu, Cornwall, and St. John's, Newfoundland, a distance of.

Marconi ( later part of the General Electric Company ) remained the city's largest employer ( with two main plants ) until the 1990s.

He was also consultant to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Swan Company, Ferranti, Edison Telephone, and later the Edison Electric Light Company.

Tesla also used sensitive electromagnetic receivers, that were unlike the less responsive coherers later used by Marconi and other early experimenters.

This division was privatised as Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd ( VSEL ) in 1986, later part of GEC's Marconi Marine.

The investigation is expected by Newhaven Local & Maritime Museum to include not only the tide mill, but also to record the entire East Beach site: Mills, Railway Station, Nurses Home, Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital, Newhaven Seaplane Base and the later holiday homes and the Newhaven Marconi Radio Station of 1904.

The company was later called the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company Ltd. For this reason Chelmsford is credited as the " birthplace of radio ", and this phrase can be seen on administrative signs on major roads entering the city although this statement is disputed.

After years of decline, the Marconi factory finally closed in 1992 and the site was demolished a few years later apart from the frontage on Writtle Road.

The company later moved its offices to the premises of the Marconi Company.

One month later he received a message from the Marconi spark transmitter at Poldhu in Cornwall, being sent to London, on the eve of the outbreak of World War One.

He started training to work in wireless for the Marconi Company in March 1906 in Seaforth and graduated five months later in August.

In May 1908, he was assigned to the Marconi station outside Clifden, Ireland, where he worked until 1911, when he was assigned to the and later, in early 1912, to the Oceanic.

Working for Marconi, his first sea assignment as a wireless operator was on the Haverford and later worked on the Beaverford, the LaFrance, the Lusitania, and the Anselm.

It has been claimed that Stubblefield invented the radio before either Nikola Tesla or Guglielmo Marconi, but his devices seem to have worked by audio frequency induction or, later, audio frequency earth conduction ( creating disturbances in the near-field region ) rather than by radio frequency radiation for radio transmission telecommunications.

This division was privatised as Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd ( VSEL ) in 1986, later passing to the GEC group as part of Marconi Marine and survives to this day as part of BAE Systems ; BAE Systems Submarines.

The holding company, Associated Electrical Industries ( AEI ), later merged with GEC which exists today as Marconi Corporation plc.

Some years later he started appearing weekly with live musicians for the Merseycats charity at the Marconi club in Huyton.

Equal shares in the resulting company were then held by Finmeccanica, and GEC-Marconi ( later Marconi Electronic Systems ( MES )), a division of The General Electric Company ( GEC ).

On October 7, 2003 the UK holding company for AMS changed its registered name from Alenia Marconi Systems Limited to AMS Limited to comply with the agreements reached regarding use of the name “ Marconi ” following the sale of Marconi Electronic Systems by GEC ( later Marconi plc ).

CFCF-TV was founded by the Canadian Marconi Company owner of CFCF radio ( AM 600, later CINW on AM 940 before its closure in 2010 ; and FM 106. 5, now CKBE-FM at 92. 5 ) after several failed attempts to gain a licence, beginning in 1938, and then each year after World War II.

Braun contributed significantly to the development of the radio and television technology: he shared with Guglielmo Marconi the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics.

In 1909 Braun shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Marconi for " contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.

Braun went to the United States at the beginning of World War I ( before the U. S. had entered the war ) to help defend the German wireless station at Sayville, New York, against attacks by the British-controlled Marconi Corporation.

Wireless detailed history and growth of the art includes the work of Nikola Tesla, Oliver Lodge, Marconi, Braun, Reginald Fessenden ( known for inventing the radiotelephony ), John Ambrose Fleming, Lee De Forest and many others.

Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun were awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize for Physics for their contribution to wireless telegraphy.

** Physics-Guglielmo Marconi, Karl Ferdinand Braun