1. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company Limited was registered at the Board of Trade on 20 July 1897, company number 53403. The name was changed to Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company Limited on 23 February 1900. For convenience the name ‘Marconi Company’ is used throughout this paper.
2. The IEE, founded in 1871 as the Society of Telegraph Engineers, became the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in March 2006 when it merged with the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE).
3. IET Archives, IET/DEP/06/02/01, f. 139.
4. Ibid., f. 135.
5. IET Archives, IEE museum accession register, IET/DEP/06/01.