Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. - Company was Aboard the Titanic - dated 1913-20 Telegraph Stock Certificate with Two Prints
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Stock with superb Graphics with the antennas that handled the transmission of the Sinking of the Titanic! Printed by American Bank Note. Includes Telegraph Station Print and Portrait of Guglielmo Marconi. Exceptional group of 3.
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time. It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship. The disaster drew public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to Marconi being credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, commonly known as American Marconi, was established in 1899 as a subsidiary of the British Marconi Company. It held the exclusive rights to Guglielmo Marconi's radio (or "wireless telegraphy") patents in the U.S. and Cuba. Initially, American Marconi focused on operating high-powered land and transatlantic shipboard stations. In 1912, it acquired the assets of the bankrupt United Wireless Telegraph Company, making it the leading radio communications provider in the United States.
During World War I, the U.S. government took control of the radio industry, and after the war, it was reluctant to return American Marconi's stations to British ownership due to national security concerns. Led by the U.S. Navy, the government pressured the Marconi companies to transfer ownership of American Marconi to a U.S. entity. In 1919, General Electric purchased American Marconi's assets, which served as the foundation for the creation of its new subsidiary, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
The British parent company, originally founded as the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company, Limited, in London on July 20, 1897, was established to promote Marconi's radio inventions. Renamed Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited (or "British Marconi") in March 1900, it sought to expand its global reach by creating subsidiaries with regional rights to the Marconi patents. American Marconi, incorporated in New Jersey on November 8, 1899, was the first of these subsidiaries, holding the exclusive right to utilize the Marconi patents in the United States, as well as in the Hawaiian Islands, Philippine Islands, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.
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