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| Description: | Giant 340 ton antenna inside radome. The housing at the left holds maser and other gear-enabling antenna to send signals up to the satellite and receive fa... |
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| Description: | Three men testing the Bell System's Telstar experimental communications satellite at the Bell Telephone Laboratories before being sent to Cape Canaveral, F... |
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| Description: | The Bell System Telstar Satellite first orbit showing apogee and perigee. |
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| Description: | Depiction of orbit of Telstar satellite when within range of Andover and English ground stations. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A view of uniformed men gathering around an Army field wireless station at Camp Bowie, built in 1917. |
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| Description: | A boy scout sits at a table, wearing headphones, to send and receive radio messages. A kerosene lamp hangs behind him. |
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| Description: | A boy sits at a wooden desk to send radio calls at Camp Wallkill. Radio equipment is arranged on the desk and surrounding tables, a radio call book can be... |
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| Description: | Two men use radio equipment at the transcription facilities in Campus Radio Studio at Westminster College. The college was founded in 1852. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | First car equipped with a radio to operate in Wisconsin. This view of the front shows the aerial antenna which spans the hood and extends over the roof of ... |
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| Description: | The original transmitting equipment for WHA, the oldest radio station in the nation. The telephone pictured served as a microphone. The station was in the ... |
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| Description: | A radio transmitter tuner and vacuum tube. The tube was built by Cyril Moreau Jansky and the transmitter was most likely built by him as well. |
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