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Rocky Point Long Island |
Copy of the first overseas radio traffic. Reads as follows. |
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Alexanderson high-speed alternators like these at RCA's Rocky
Point. Long Island. transmitting station once carried the entire
load of overseas radio traffic. |
May this first message which opens commercial wireless service
between America and England mark an epoch in history from which the
achievements of the future shall date. Communication is the
leverage which shall life the world to better understanding and thus
lead to closer ties between all nations. It is the mission of our
respective companies to so strengthen and improve the wireless service
that distance shall be negligible and communication instantaneous.
(signed) Edward J Naley |
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RCA Radio Central Towers At Rocky Point |
1919 |
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In the early 1920's |
The First RCA laboratory was started in this tent, At Rocky Point
Long Island. |
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Old RCA Building |
Chief Officer Elmer Pickerill |
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At 66 Broad Street New York City |
Of the U.S.S. Leviathan stand by the array of 1926 wireless equipment
which permitted the vessel to keep in radio contact with both shores
during trans-oceanic crossings. |
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Jack
Dempsey |
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Listens to a Radio Music Box just before the Dempsey-Carpenter
championship title fight in 1921 |
Portable field pick-up amplifiers at station WEAF in New York in 1922. |
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