DeForest Wireless Telegraph Station on the Roof-Garden of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1908-1910
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Artifact Overview
This image depicts Hugo Gernsback and station manager Elmo Pickerill inside the United Wireless radio station atop the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City (Station "WA"). Gernsback was the publisher of the first science fiction and radio electronics magazines. In 1925, he founded his own AM radio station, WRNY. Pickerill became Chief Radio Officer aboard the SS Leviathan in 1923.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
1908-1910
Creators
Creator Notes
Hugo Gernsback, Publisher, Modern Electric
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.2706
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Inscriptions
caption of photo:
DeForest wireless telegraph station on roof-garden of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, on the site now occupied by the Empire State building. 1908-1909-1910. Elmo N. Pickerill, Operator in Charge. Hugo Gernsback, Publisher, Modern Electrics.
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