File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’ [‎121r] (246/640)

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The volume contains correspondence and notes by British government officials about the Italian Government’s support for proposals by the British company Marconi, initially in association with the German company Telefunken, to establish a network of wireless (radio) telegraph stations in Persia. The main correspondents are ministers and senior officials at the Foreign Office and the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. in London, the Director-in-Chief of the Indo-European Telegraph Department headquarters in London, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India at Calcutta, the British Minister to Persia at Tehran (also spelt Teheran) and the British Ambassador to Russia at Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]. The correspondents discuss the harm that would be caused to the British monopoly on telegraphic installations and communications between India, Southern Persia (referred to as the British zone) and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , in the event that the Marconi Company was successful in obtaining a concession (licence) from the Persian Government, with the concurrence of the Russian Government. Included in the volume is a copy of the Marconi proposals, written in French and presented by the Italian Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1914. At the end of the volume is a copy of the General Post Office publication ‘Cable communication: further print of Concessions Granted in Foreign Countries accompanying memorandum of 13th October 1899, comparing General Forms of License for landing cables in the United Kingdom and various Licenses or Concessions for landing cables in British Possessions or Foreign Countries’, printed in October 1905.

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1 volume (316 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 3632 (Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia) consists of one volume.

Physical characteristics

The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 318; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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English and French in Latin script

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