9491c. WIRELESS ROOM OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER GRESHAM, LIFE-SAVER OF THE ROCKY NEW ENGLAND COAST. Scientific American. March 23, 1912
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9491c. WIRELESS ROOM OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER GRESHAM, LIFE-SAVER OF THE ROCKY NEW ENGLAND COAST. Scientific American. March 23, 1912
9491c. WIRELESS ROOM OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER GRESHAM, LIFE-SAVER OF THE ROCKY NEW ENGLAND COAST. Scientific American. March 23, 1912. 2p. Full issue. Great full front cover photo image of the wireless operators on the U. S. Revenue Cutter Gresham at work at their receiver. Accompanying full page article entitled Curbing the Wireless Meddler – Regulation of Radiotelegraphy by Robert A. Morton Jr., notes that urgent dispatches from such vessels have sometimes been delayed for hours by the workings of over 200,000 amateur radio stations and proposes governmental regulation for the new science. Other interesting articles include Amundsen’s Attainment of the South Pole, The First Oil Engines on Passenger Ships, new inventions, and more. (VG). $34.