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Description
Newspaper and magazine clippings about Lee de Forest and his business enterprises, published before 1919: a) "Soldier's Memorial, Spanish-American War of 1898, Light Battery A, First Connecticut Artillery, U.S. Volunteers" poster. de Forest is listed under Privates. (Copyright 1898; 2003-34-700a) b) News clippings, circa 1904, about wireless telegraph transmission from Kansas City to St. Louis, De Forest tower at the St. Louis World's Fair. Glued to the back is a telegram dated 29 September 1904 to Dr. Lee DeForest, Kansas City, from Abraham White, "Another grand stride marks the opening of the Kansas City station. The rapidity of wireless action which characterizes the work the DeForest system is again demonstrated. I can only repeat my congratulations and observations contained in my aerogram to you when Chicago was opened." (deF 127.70) (2003-34-700b) c) "Sending Music Through the Air," May 15, 1907 (2003-34-700c) d) "Practical Application of Wireless Telephony," Electrical World, Nov. 9, 1907. (2003-34-700d) e) Clipping of news photograph, "Captain Ingersoll, Chief of Staff Under Admiral Evans, Using the De Forest Radio Telephone on Board the United States Flagship Connecticut," Electric Review (2003-34-700e) f) "DeForest System of Wireless Telegraph," A. S. McLean, The Yale Scientific Monthly, October 1903 (2003-34-700f) g) Illustrations of Lee de Forest, Nancy Mayo and Mary Mayo crossing the frozen Hudson River, circa 1918 (2003-34-700g). In 1918, the New York Times photographed de Forest and Nancy Mayo (Mary's sister) on the frozen Hudson River (see PDF attached to the record). The illustration, by an unknown artist, appears to make a statement about the publicity-seeking nature of Nancy Mayo and possibly Lee de Forest. h) "Radio Department," The Electrical Experimenter, January 1917 i) "Amateur Wireless Has Many Bronx Devotees; Talk to Distant Points By a Relay Method," Bronx Home News, December 1919 j) "Curran Forces Confident, Hyland Men Seem Sanguine; Women Will Name Mayor: Radio PHones Carry Final Fusion Pleas," November 8, 1921.
Type
image
Identifier
98EAB2C3-5ACD-41D4-A4D6-328348802694 2003-34-700
Subject
Telegraph, Wireless (LCSH) De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company Telegraph stations (LCSH) Spanish-American War, 1898 Veterans Radio--Transmitter-receivers (LCSH) Radio--Transmitters and transmission (LCSH) Radiotelephone (LCSH) Rivers Ice skating Audion De Forest, Lee White, Abraham De Forest, Mary Mayo Mayo, Nancy
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