File:Brant rock radio tower 1910.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(513 × 800 pixels, file size: 120 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Postcard from around 1910 showing Reginald Fessendon's radio transmitter mast at Brant Rock Massachusetts which made the first two way transatlantic radio transmission in 1906

Summary[edit]

Description
English: penny postcard of Reginald Fessenden's Brant Rock, Massachusetts radio tower. In 1906 Fessenden used this radio station to make the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission, communicating with an identical station in Machrihanish, Scotland.
Date circa 1910
date QS:P,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source scan made from personal copy of the postcard
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.
Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.PD-1923Public domain in the United States//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brant_rock_radio_tower_1910.jpg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current11:37, 14 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 11:37, 14 January 2017513 × 800 (120 KB)Thomas H. White (talk | contribs)Color correction
22:57, 17 September 2008Thumbnail for version as of 22:57, 17 September 2008513 × 800 (117 KB)Alchaemist (talk | contribs)Circa. 1910 penny postcard of Reginald Fessenden's Brant Rock, Massachusetts radio tower.

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Brant_rock_radio_tower_1910.jpg&oldid=850353960"