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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 102

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A WIRELESS OPERATOR ON A MOVING TRAIN. by other wires connecting with the sounders ofsending-keys. Tests made on this railway show that wirelesscommunication can be maintained to and froma train equipped with a quadrangle of wire sup-ported at a height of only eighteen inches abovethe roof of the… … THE WIRELESS TOWER, 402 FEET HIGH, AT THE HOBOKEN TERMINAL. ton and Binghampton is about sixty-five miles,and, in the experiments just made, it was foundpossible to maintain communication from a trainrunning at fifty-five miles per hour, part of thetime direct from the train to the fixed…

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