The Marconi Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company that did business under that name from 1963 to 1987. Its roots were in the...
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Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA GCVO (Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor...
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Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of General Electric Company (GEC). It was demerged from GEC...
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2001 led to the restructuring in 2003 of Marconi plc into Marconi Corporation plc. During 2005, the company failed to secure any part of BT's 21st Century...
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respect to the Marconi Company. They had known that the government was about to issue a lucrative contract to the British Marconi company for the Imperial...
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Alenia Marconi Systems (AMS) was a major European integrated defence electronics company and an equal shares joint venture between BAE Systems and Finmeccanica...
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Marconi Communications, the former telecommunications arm of Britain's General Electric Company plc (GEC), was founded in August 1998 through the amalgamation...
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The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America (commonly called American Marconi) was incorporated in 1899. It was established as a subsidiary of the...
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the company at that address. The company later moved its offices to the premises of the Marconi Company. The BBC as a commercial broadcasting company did...
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their transmission and detection. These developments allowed Guglielmo Marconi to turn radio waves into a wireless communication system. The idea that...
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the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Guglielmo Marconi developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers between 1895 and 1901. His company, the...
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Telent (redirect from Marconi Corporation PLC)
services provision company. The name is used from 2006 for those parts of the United Kingdom and German services businesses of Marconi Corporation (formerly...
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British company GEC-Marconi after the payment of a balance by the latter. The new company was 50.1% owned by Thomson-CSF and 49.9% by GEC-Marconi. Denis...
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Matra Marconi Space (MMS) was a Franco-British aerospace company. Matra Marconi Space was established in 1990 as a joint venture between the space and...
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CMC Electronics (redirect from Canadian Marconi Company)
company was founded in 1903 as Canadian Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada by Guglielmo Marconi. In 1925, the company was renamed Canadian Marconi Company...
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Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering (redirect from Barrow Shipbuilding Company)
became Marconi Marine (VSEL), part of the company's GEC-Marconi division. With the merger of British Aerospace and GEC's defence business – Marconi Electronic...
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Jack Phillips (wireless officer) (redirect from Jack Phillips (Marconi Telegraphist))
learned telegraphy. He started training to work in wireless for the Marconi Company in March 1906, in Seaforth, and graduated five months later in August...
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English Electric (redirect from English Electric Company)
commercially as type ZWA. In 1946, English Electric took over the Marconi Company, a foray into the domestic consumer electronic market. English Electric...
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The GEC-Marconi scientist deaths theory claims that between 1982 and 1990 a number of British-based GEC-Marconi scientists and engineers who worked on...
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Nikola Tesla (section The Nikola Tesla Company)
In 1915, Tesla attempted to sue the Marconi Company for infringement of his wireless tuning patents. Marconi's initial radio patent had been awarded...
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Tracor (category General Electric Company)
electronics contractor which was acquired by Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), a subsidiary of General Electric Company plc, in 1998. Following the purchase of...
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Marconi scandal. An article published in Le Matin on 14 February 1913 alleged corruption in the award of a government contract to the Marconi Company...
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CFCF-DT (section Canadian Marconi Company (1961–1972))
transmitter is located atop Mount Royal. CFCF-TV was founded by the Canadian Marconi Company, owner of CFCF radio (600 AM, later CINW on 940 AM before its closure...
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BAE Systems (category Aerospace companies of the United Kingdom)
electronics companies, including the Marconi Company, the first commercial company devoted to the development and use of radio; A.V. Roe and Company, one of...
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GEC Plessey Telecommunications (category Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom)
on the company following the "burst of the dot-com bubble" in 2000/2001. On 19 May 2003, Marconi plc underwent a major restructuring into Marconi Corporation...
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7 January 1904 the Marconi International Marine Communication Company issued "Circular 57", which specified that, for the company's installations, beginning...
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Simpson gained a reputation for turning around struggling companies. However, as CEO of Marconi plc he presided over one of the largest collapses in British...
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Nally served as the vice president and general manager of American Marconi Company and was the first president of RCA between 1919 and 1923. "The March...
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Marconi Instruments Limited (MI) was a British company, one of the Marconi group of companies, formerly part of GEC. Originally formed in 1936, there...
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Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bologna-Guglielmo Marconi) (IATA: BLQ, ICAO: LIPE) is an international airport serving the city...
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