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Title: Guglielmo Marconi leaves by train, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1933
1933-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy."
Reported in “Marconi plans to return here,” Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 1933: A14.
Text from newspaper caption: Marconi, Guglielmo
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6236
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Arrivals & departures--Italian--California--Los Angeles
Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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