[…]handsome young man in naval uniform with a ball of the earth, with his foot on the ball, the world at your feet, and I fell for him. I applied to the Marconi Company and they took me on as a boy to learn wireless. I got my first class certificate after three months hard study. Most people took six m[…]
[…]less, you know, but it's very early days, you know, spark sets and all that. But they had all this equipment, which we were trained on; duplicates of Marconi equipment that would be on a ship. So after a year, we sat for the Postmaster General's First Class Certificate of Proficiency in Radio, Wirel[…]
[…]Allen: Oh my Grandfather was marvellous!Rodney Giesler: He taught you did he?Larry Allen: He had a big library of books and he was very interested in Marconi, Edison, and all these people, the big inventors of the day, and I devoured that.Rodney Giesler: And he was your Mother's Father?Larry Allen: […]
[…]ould get five telephone calls and we would all jump in the air and go and have a cup of coffee. And in those 21 days Baird was in one studio and Marconi in the other. And somehow or another, certainly I always liked working with the Baird boys the best because they were Scots and English and th[…]
[…]ley, probably the most knowledgeable man on non broadcast formats and so forth. A real innovator, marvellous engineer, and another good engineer from Marconi. JOHN, when we had fascinating to high quality restaurants, we had very good graphic designers, what do you say? I think we were all professio[…]
[…] charge of their units. I think Dallas did some work and things at the BBC didn’t he before that?ROY FOWLER: That was later. He came from Marconi.HARRY MILLER: Atkins came from the GPO, and he built the telephone exchange at the studios at the time. John Reynders who was the musica[…]
