Transmitter Room of the Naval Wireless Station NAA, Arlington, Virginia, 1912
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Artifact Overview
Artifact Details
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
1912
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.2697
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Inscriptions
caption in photo:
TRANSMITTING APPARATUS FOR THE WIRELESS STATION AT RADIO, VIRGINIA / Photograph by G. V. Buck, from Underwood & Underwood, New York
caption on frame:
TRANSMITTER ROOM OF NAVY STATION AT ARLINGTON (RADIO) VIRGINIA. THIS PHOTO SHOWS THE 100 K.W. GAP ROTOR NOW IN THE MUSEUM. STATION CALL LETTERS: N A A (1912)
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