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Radio Broadcast
it would touch a pool of mercury closing a circuit and making the transmitter send a dot every second.
THE EARLIEST RADIO COMPANY
IN 1901, articles appeared in newspapers stating that a corporation called the American Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Company was starting into wireless on a commercial scale. That company based its right to exist on a wireless patent issued to Professor Dolbear in 1886. I wrote the company asking for a job. Much to my surprise, the president of the company wrote back and told me I could have a job if I would take it at once. 1 hadn't quite finished my college course but 1 took the job, in June, 1901.
We of the American Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Co., built stations at Galilee, Briele
and Barnegat, New Jersey, and placed a station on a vessel to report the yacht races of the Columbia and Shamrock in the fall of 1901.
Three organizations tried to report those yacht races, Marconi representatives from England, De Forest who was starting a wireless company in New Jersey, and our company, the American Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Company. Mr. Greenleaf Whittier Pickard was also with the American Company. I believe that Dr. De Forest, Mr. Pickard, and I are the only Americans who have continued actively in wireless up to the present. The others, who are living, have entered other lines of work or have retired.
Except for the brief service rendered in reporting the yacht races, those stations only served for demonstrating and experimenting as other stations had done before. They were
RADIO PIONEERS TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
The men who built the wireless apparatus during the winter of 1901 and 1902 in the shop of the Carstarphen Electric Co.. Denver Colorado. Mr. W. P. Carstarphen is the tall bald man in the rear. Mr. G. T. Swenson who later became Mr. Marriott's assistant in the California work is the man in the checked shirt in the center. Mr. Marriott is at the 1< with his hand in his pocket. He says he was trying to raise a beard to look old enough for his job.