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Chelmsford is proud to be the birthplace of radio

skip And to this day maintains a strong connection with the most famous name in broadcasting history, Guglielmo Marconi. Chelmsford still retains strong links with the Marconi name in and around the town with more than 2,000 local people still employed in factories and offices in Chelmsford bearing the Marconi name.

On December 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi and his engineers transmitted the first wireless signals across the Atlantic - a momentous occasion.

Guglielmo Marconi began his earliest experiments in wireless telegraphy at just 18, and he soon became the first person to successfully send radio waves over a distance of several hundred metres.



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Arriving in England in 1896 the 21-year-old Marconi conducted his first British experiment on the roof of the Post Office at St Martin´s-le-Grand, London. Marconi took over a former silk mill in Hall Street, Chelmsford in 1898 and established it as the world´s first radio factory - the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company Limited.

The Marconi Company´s manufacturing business in Chelmsford expanded so rapidly that a new factory was built in 1912 in New Street.

In June 1920 the first publicised entertainment broadcast in England was transmitted from the New Street site when Australian prima donna Dame Nellie Melba sang at a concert sponsored by the Daily Mail.


Permission was given to transmit regular entertainment broadcasts, and a station was set up at the hut at Writtle. Using its call sign Two Emma Toc (2MT), it began transmitting in February, 1922, and from a second station at the top of London´s Marconi House in May that year. Then the new British Broadcasting Company Limited was formed.

Using an aerial and transmitters designed and made in the New Street factory the BBC Television Service began transmitting black and white pictures in November 1936, the first regular television service in the world.

The Marconi companies, and others, have made profound changes in the world of communications with wide-ranging uses of radio communications; radar installations; Intelsat; space communication; computers and micro-processors.

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