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Beautiful, but what I find even more fascinating is the ad on the page above: "The Wireless Telephone". Does anyone know what happened to the Great Lakes Radio

by bijant 6y ago

Beautiful, but what I find even more fascinating is the ad on the page above: "The Wireless Telephone". Does anyone know what happened to the Great Lakes Radio Telephone Company ? Introducing their service in the year Marconi got his nobel price and about a hundred years before the iPhone, they seem to have been a bit too far ahead of their time, or did they succeed ?

Bluestein 6y ago
I noticed that :) I wonder ...
- Bluestein 6y ago
  This ... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212749 ... the "De Forest" system is what the Great Lakes company used, according to the ad ... (The whole "turn $100 into $100.000" thing, however, sounds like a "hot ICO" post on social media would today :)
Bluestein 6y ago
(Or this other ad, for the ... "American Wireless Institute offers the only adequate course of instruction in Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Operation and Engineering. Joining the navy in order to learn the art of wireless is a long, expensive and round about way, but until the establishment of the American Wireless Institute, that was the only satisfactory way of acquiring a wireless education. In six weeks the American Wireless Institute can give to the earnest student as great knowledge of wireless operation as he could acquire during the four years of hard work required of all who enlist in the navy. The demand for competent wireless operators and engineers is in- sistent. One wireless company has stated to us that it will have places for several hundred operators during the next six months. The great wireless companies are just entering an era of tremendous commercial development which will provide thousands of lucrative positions to men with sufficient wireless training to carry on the work. Write today for our catalogue which shows you how to become master of your destiny. Do it NOW. American Wireless Institute 52 BROADWAY, NEW YORK • When writing please mention 'Modern Electrics.'")

by bijant 6y ago

Bluestein 6y ago

I noticed that :) I wonder ...

Bluestein 6y ago
This ... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212749 ... the "De Forest" system is what the Great Lakes company used, according to the ad ... (The whole "turn $100 into $100.000" thing, however, sounds like a "hot ICO" post on social media would today :)

Bluestein 6y ago

(Or this other ad, for the ... "American Wireless Institute offers the only adequate course of instruction in Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Operation and Engineering. Joining the navy in order to learn the art of wireless is a long, expensive and round about way, but until the establishment of the American Wireless Institute, that was the only satisfactory way of acquiring a wireless education. In six weeks the American Wireless Institute can give to the earnest student as great knowledge of wireless operation as he could acquire during the four years of hard work required of all who enlist in the navy. The demand for competent wireless operators and engineers is in- sistent. One wireless company has stated to us that it will have places for several hundred operators during the next six months. The great wireless companies are just entering an era of tremendous commercial development which will provide thousands of lucrative positions to men with sufficient wireless training to carry on the work. Write today for our catalogue which shows you how to become master of your destiny. Do it NOW. American Wireless Institute 52 BROADWAY, NEW YORK • When writing please mention 'Modern Electrics.'")