This is the Marconi station today (compare with historic unveiling image below). The first engineer hailed from my alma mater. Go Bears!
Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a three-part entry on wireless radio telegraphy during World War I. In part 1, we saw the British dominance in wireless prior to World War I […]
The Kahuku Radio Station, as it looks today as a shrimp farm. Stay tuned for part 2, containing images from its 1914 emergency wartime inauguration.
And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they’re spoken.
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried […]
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. used gigantic engines, which drove a total of four Chicago Pneumatic air compressors. The compressors were used to power the riveting tools integral to pre-World War II shipbuilding.
Part 3 — The Great War & Union Busting
Soon enough, however, the Great War, on which Schwab had gambled, was in full swing. As a […]
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