Testing the new Listening Tubes
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Testing the new Listening Tubes
"Can you hear me now...?"
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
- kirtley2012
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Re: Testing the new Listening Tubes
Ooh, stereo!
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- Victor VI
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Re: Testing the new Listening Tubes
Where did these come from. It looks military equipment to me.
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Re: Testing the new Listening Tubes
Anti aircraft listening post?
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Re: Testing the new Listening Tubes
What is the source of the image? The building in the background looks an awful lot like the National War College at Fort Lesley McNair in Washington, D.C.
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Re: Testing the new Listening Tubes
probably military , they used concrete in the 1st World war to detect Zeppelins in the Uk !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-46348917
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-46348917
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Re: Testing the new Listening Tubes
The photo appears to have been taken at Bolling Field in Washington, D.C. The building in the background is indeed the United States Army War College at Washington Barracks (now Fort Lesley J. McNair). The Anacostia River (Eastern Branch of the Potomac River) lies between the two. Bolling Field was used by the U.S. Army Air Corps as well as U.S. Navy Aviation. Perhaps the original name of the base--the Anacostia Experimental Flying Field--when it opened in the late teens may help explain why acoustical tracking device testing was taking place.