Lot 20521 – 1903 Oct 18) Original photo of the Italian radio-telegraphic station in Peking

1903 (Oct 18) Original photo of the Italian radio-telegraphic station in the Italian legation in Peking, « vista del albero portafili » (view of the « tree » of wires). The photo is dated on reverse in manuscript on the day this station in Peking was opened; with a range of 250 km., the first tests started four days before (Oct. 14) by communicating with the « Vettor Pisani » battleship in Taku, in order to verify the proper functioning before the opening; in 1904 another station was opened in Tientsin. The photographic testimony of the first radio-telegraphic station in China, probably unique.