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Title
Setting up an early wireless radio antenna, Mount Hood, Oregon, 1919
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1919/08/
Contributing Institution
History San Jose Research Library
Collection
History San Jose Online Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Two men, "Maloney & Coleman," setting up an early wireless radio station antenna on the top of Mount Hood, Oregon, August 1919, with National Radio Wireless Company equipment. One of four photographs (date and identification on back) Telephone engineer C. M. Allen of the US Forest Service and W. W. Hanscom oversaw installation of the National Radio Wireless sets on Mt. Hood. The first wireless information regarding forest fires was transmitted from Mt. Hood (fire district 6) on August 9, 1919, a week earlier than similar messages sent in Montana. The equipment was dismantled moved from the peak to the Mt. Hood postoffice with the onset of winter. (See Portland Oregon Journal, August 28, 1919).
Type
Image
Format
Black & White
Identifier
0BDDD53A-7699-4F94-9A0B-589503140960
2003-33-146
Subject
Mount Hood (Oregon)
National Radio Company
Radio--Antennas (LCSH)
Radio--Transmitters and transmission (LCSH)

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