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Marconi Archive Collection |
This digital archive is based on the Marconi Collection and concentrates on the first 50 years of wireless from 1896 to 1946. Information on early equipment and experiments in a large collection of documents, around 700 photographs and 500 pieces of ephemera. Marconi's activities at the Needles are spotlighted through various letters etc. in the Ephemera section. |
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Queen Victoria and the Telephone, 1877-1878 |
Documents concerning Queen Victoria's first contact with the telephone. [The Alexander Graham Bell Papers at the Library of Congress.] |
| Hovercraft Museum |
Information on Christopher Cockerell's development of the hovercraft. Also includes history and subsequent development of the hovercraft. Detailed site that highlights Island's role in the hovercraft story. Facts and figures on British Hovercraft Corporation of East Cowes[now GKN Aerospace. |
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| Molly Downer, the Last of the Witches, Bembridge, Isle of Wight |
| New Book on Joseph Nye | A new book about an Isle of Wight shipbuilder who went to work for Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, in St. Petersburg in the early 18th century and who helped construct Russia's first ocean-going navy. [contains information about his Isleof Wight shipbuilding career at East Cowes]. |
