Other Marconi Collection Objects and Documents: A Selection

This section presents a selection of items that document a variety of areas that touch on the complex history of wireless communications: scientific research, transport, geolocation, wartime and the media. They represent the diversity of the industrial sectors in which the various branches of the Marconi Company operated in the 1900s. The artefacts have different origins, but a significant group comes from the Raccolte Storiche del Comune di Milano - Civico Museo Navale Didattico (CMND), whose collections were exhibited at the opening of MUST. Some of these objects were probably actually used, while others seem to have had the same demonstrative purpose as the ‘artefacts’ that came from Marconi‘s companies, so a common origin is likely. Finally, the Museum's historical heritage also includes archival documents and an extensive series of books dedicated to Marconi and the history of wireless communications. Here we present a small selection that documents the construction of the Marconi myth.