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Description: | -Collections represent a wide range of Chelmsford's industries including trades and crafts, agriculture and agricultural processing, with a main emphasis on the three key Chelmsford firms - Crompton, Britain's first electrical engineers, Hoffmann, Britain's first specialist manufacturers of rolling bearings, and Marconi, who opened the world's first radio factory in Chelmsford in 1899. Key items include an early Hoffmann ball lathe, an 1890s Crompton arc lamp and collections of Marconi TV cameras, transmitters and receivers. The collection also includes the last timber-built Chelmer barge 'Susan' (1953) and the wooden army hut which housed radio station 2MT Writtle, source, in 1922, of Britain's first regular radio programmes."
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Oaklands Park
Moulsham Street
Chelmsford Essex United Kingdom,
CM2 9AQ | FAX: | 01245 280642 | Telephone: | 01245 353066 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6547 | Go to resource |
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