Title
BBC and Radio in Britain
Reference
UK0108 IET/SPE/08/001
Date
1972
Creator
Scope and Content
Incomplete set of display cards used in exhibition on the history of the BBC and radio in Britain. There are 8 story cards and 12 photograph, and also a facsimile of programmes of wireless concerts to be transmitted to the wireless exhibition and convention 30 September-7 October 1922. Also includes 21 display cards.
The photographs are identified as follows:
A typical amateur station
Chelmsford - transmitter with newsreader at the microphone
Chelmsford - 450 ft masts
Writtle - transmitter
Writtle - staff (names given on caption card)
Marconi House - aerial masts
Marconi House - Olive Sturgess and John Huntingdon singing a duet
Marconi House - Arthur Burrows ringing out 1922
Pre-war disc recording 1932
Mobile recording unit 1956
Marconi-Stille steel tape machines 1937
Magnetic tape recording machines, monitoring and programme distribution bays
Exent
8 story cards and 12 photographs
Persons keyword
Subject
Conditions governing access
Open
Level of description
Item
