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The war resulted in large orders for radio equipment, and the Aldene plant was expanded, with employment in 1917 rising from 200 to 700. [29] Although the overall U.S. government plan was to restore civilian ownership of the seized radio stations once the war ended, many Navy officials hoped to retain a monopoly on radio communication after the ...
Use of the Eiffel Tower as a listening station to intercept wireless telegraphy (French: télégraphie sans fil T.S.F.) 1914 British radio listening station from the Second World War, equipped with the National HRO shortwave radio receivers The radomes of listening station RAF Menwith Hill, England, often referred to as "golf balls", protect the parabolic antennas from the weather.
During World War One, the U.S. Navy purchased Federal Telegraph, but after the end of the war a displeased U.S. Congress ordered the Navy to return the company to its original owners. [2] The company was acquired in August 1927 by the Mackay Companies, and was renamed the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company (California). [3]
QST is a magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts, published by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). It is a membership journal that is included with membership in the ARRL. The publisher claims that circulation of QST in the United States is higher than all other amateur radio-related publications in the United States combined.
With the end of the war and the Dominions continuing to apply pressure on the government to provide an "Imperial wireless system", [8] the House of Commons agreed in 1919 that £170,000 should be spent constructing the first two radio stations in the chain, in Oxfordshire (at Leafield) and Egypt (in Cairo), to be completed in early 1920 [10] – although in the event the link opened on 24 ...
Those days are recreated by the El Dorado-based Act 1 Players in a radio drama opening this weekend. “War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast” is a radio play performed by a six-person cast ...
The Zimmermann telegram (or Zimmermann note or Zimmermann cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office on January 17, 1917, that proposed a military contract between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
The introduction of radio telegraphy was a significant step in communication during World War I. The stations utilized at that time were spark-gap transmitters . As an example, the information of the start of World War I was transmitted to German South West Africa on 2 August 1914 via radio telegraphy from the Nauen transmitter station via a ...