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8 photos tagged marconi, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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beachcomber australia said:
I just worked out that Marconi's first wife was my Irish maternal great-grandmother's half-sister. Tuning in with interest! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi www.thepeerage.com/p48399.htm#i483987
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia interesting, do tell more.
beachcomber australia said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons Marconi's first wife Beatrice, www.thepeerage.com/p48399.htm#i483985 , was the daughter of www.thepeerage.com/p1795.htm#i17941 , whose first child by his first wife was my great-grandmother, www.thepeerage.com/p28200.htm#i281999. It's complicated - they all seem to have married several times!
Sharon Corbet said:
This is a contemporary description of the station: The Clifden Station of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph System, from Scientific American, 23 November 1907.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Got it, you have a very interesting family tree. Marconi's Mother was also Irish!

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O Mac said:
Ballycastle, Co Antrim.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
O Mac you are too good at this.
Suck Diesel said:
1880 onwards for the railway
Suck Diesel said:
The larger church is St Patrick's and St Brigid's Church, spire erected 1898

The nearer one is the Holy Trinity Parish Church, 1756
Suck Diesel said:

SI class 2-4-2T No.44, in NCC livery, crosses the Tow river viaduct shortly after leaving Ballycastle for Ballymoney

Richard Norton said:
Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi
Chris Bastian said:
The inventor of the first band-aid?
jamica1 said:
And Nobel Prize winner.