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Wireless Communication in the United States

The Early Development of American Radio Operating Companies
by Thorn L. Mayes

Thorn L. Mayeswas an electrical engineer who grew up in the time he wrote about. He knewwireless and many of the people who developed it. The book is a factualaccount alternators, arcs and sparcs, and coherers, barretters and tikkers!It tells of great engineering achievements. It describes unscrupulous stockpromotions that by chance yielded some technical break-throughs.

 This book covers the glory days of high powered wireless, threehundred thousand watt spark transmitters, one million watt arc transmitters,and the mighty Alexanderson alternators with antennas as long as nine miles;systems that gave dependable world wide radio communication over seventyyears ago as well as the business history of early radio.

The appendix includes fresh opinions from excerpts of unpublished lettersof pioneers, and early drawings of well designed, quenched gap spark transmitterswhich are far more than the blunderbuss static generators that they havebeen taken for.
 

The book is available from the museum for $49.95 plus $3.00 for shipping and handling.
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The New England Wireless and Steam Museum, Inc.
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East Greenwich, RI 02818

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