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ALL who are concerned in the world of shipping and in the electrical industry will learn with regret of the death on March 17, a few hours before his forty-sixth birthday, of Mr. W. W. Bradfield, general manager of the Marconi International Marine Communication Co., Ltd. Practical radio telegraphy, particularly in connexion with shipping, owes much to Mr. Bradfield, whose connexion with the Marconi Company dates from September 3, 1897, when he entered what was then known as the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company, Ltd. As electrical assistant to Senatore Marconi, in the earliest days of commercial wireless, Mr. Bradfield took part in experimental work on Salisbury Plain, and assisted in the erection of the wire-.less station at the Needles, Isle of Wight. In the year 1899 he installed the first wireless apparatus on British battleships, and a little later took charge of the demonstrations to the United States Government on board the U.S. battleship Massachusetts, while in 1901 he undertook similar demonstrations before the French Government, when communication was established between the French Riviera and Corsica. In the same year he supervised the erection of the famous stations at Siasconset (Nantucket Island) and the Nantucket Lightship. From 1902 until 1908 Mr. Bradfield was chief engineer to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, and during this time he took part in the first International Radio-Telegraphic Conference, held in Berlin in 1906.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 115, 503 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115503b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115503b0