Marconi in East Kent

A letter dated 7th September 1897 from the GPO to the Admiralty, inviting
them to send a representative to those experiments, clearly demonstrates the
extent of Preece’s concern, adding, as it does, “I am to add that, as Signor
Marconi has now disposed of his rights in the invention to a private company it
is thought advisable that, for the present, the results of these further
experiments should not be made public.”
Although
intended to
have been
carried out with
no small degree
of secrecy,
newspapers
soon carried
accounts of the
trials