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Wireless talk through the Met Life Building antenna opens soon
New York July 5 four thousand feet of copper wire strung from the fifty story Metropolis Life Building will power the De Forest wireless system to link New York Philadelphia and the Great Lakes. The project tests include balloons in gusty wind, lightning and rain as linemen finish the world’s largest antenna. Dr. Lee de Forest and collaborators have developed a practical wireless telephone now used commercially on the Great Lakes and by navies, with tests reaching one hundred miles.
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New York
Radio Telephone Company
Metropolitan Life
de Forest
Atlantic Coast
Owser
Jront
Philadelphia
Central
Quaker
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Great Lakes
Lee de Forest
Dr. de Forest
Colin and
Jeanice
Conde
Toulon