Guglielmo Marconi, Nellie Melba, and Wireless Telegraph Company Limited bronze plaque
Guglielmo Marconi · Inventor of a Wireless Telegraphy System
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“Marconi House Within this building Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited operated their famous broadcasting station 2.L.O. from May 11th to November 14th 1922 when it became the first station of the British Broadcasting Company. The first pre-announced broadcast of public entertainment took place two years earlier when Dame Nellie Melba sang from Marconi's Chelmsford Works on June 15th 1920”
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1874-1937
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Marconi House, The Strand
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Guglielmo Marconi
inventor of a wireless telegraphy system, pioneer of wireless communications, father of wireless, and Nobel Physics Laureate · (1874-1937)
Nellie Melba
Australia's Queen of Song, wife of Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire · (1861-1931)
Wireless Telegraph Company Limited
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