4287 x 2848 px | 36,3 x 24,1 cm | 14,3 x 9,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
11 maggio 2011
Ubicazione:
3 Villa Durazzo, Piazzale S.Giacomo 16038 Santa Margherita Ligure
Altre informazioni:
Marconi opened a new era of world communication in 1934 when, on board his floating-laboratory, the yacht "Elettra" (Electra in English), that was moored off-shore from the Miramare, he switched on the lights of Sydney in Australia by radio command. Elettra 1 was purchased by Marconi in 1919 for use for both entertaining his famous guests and for his wireless experiments at sea. He named his ship Elettra. The ship had cabins for Marconi, his wife Beatrice and guests, a study, library and a wireless laboratory equipped with an 8Kw transmitter. It was in the „Elettra“, with a short-wave telephone transmitter with a power of 2 kW, that Marconi carried out his important series of experiments demonstrating the possibilities of ships at sea making direct connection by wireless with the land line telephone networks of the world so that passengers and marine officials could speak from their ships direct to their homes and offices ashore. In 1943 during WWII the ship was requisitioned by the Germans and torpedoed in 1944 by the British. In 1962 the Elettra was raised and given to the Italian Government. The Elettra was eventually scrapped.
