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Description
Featured on page 14 of Electronics in the West with this caption: "A wireless telegraph message sent August 23, 1899, from the San Francisco lightship to a station in the Cliff House restaurant building overlooking the Pacific was the first ship-to-shore wireless transmission to be received in the United States."
Type
Image
Format
Black & White
Identifier
22E05EAC-32B2-4431-9679-361195307526 2003-35-395
Subject
Telegraph--History (LCSH) Telegraph, Wireless--Installation on ships (LCSH) Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif.) Radio--History (LCSH) Lightships Ships--Electronic equipment (LCSH)
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