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MR. A. A. KIFT, who has served for forty-three years with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd. and during the last twenty years has been successively sales manager, assistant engineer-in-chief and contracts manager, retired from the Company's service at the end of August. Mr. Kift is one of the best known Marconi officials and is one of those engineers who joined soon after the Company's formation and may be said to be responsible for laying its foundations. Like many of those early wireless pioneers, Mr. Kift received his training as an electrical engineer at Finsbury Technical College. After a further specialized course at the Marconi Training College at Frinton, he was appointed to the erecting staff and was engaged in fitting some of the first half-dozen White Star liners which were equipped with wireless in and about the year 1902 at a time when a range of 50–100 miles with a coherer receiver was regarded as very satisfactory communication. After that, Mr. Kift's work for the Company, afloat and ashore, ranged from the Labrador coast to Varna on the Black Sea, with the erection of stations round the English coast interspersed with his foreign travel.
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Mr. A. A. Kift. Nature 156, 329 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156329b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156329b0