Comments on: ETHER JUMPERS NEVER SLEEP http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/06/ether-jumpers-never-sleep/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:46:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: linc56mk2 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/06/ether-jumpers-never-sleep/#comment-1048082 linc56mk2 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:16:43 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/06/ether-jumpers-never-sleep/#comment-1048082 I believe that the upper left hand picture may be of Jesse Owens at the Munich Olympics in 1936! This may, in fact, be a significant historical photograph! The Nazi's were beat by a black distance runner, Jesse Owens. The 1936 Olympics was where Germany was showcasing Aryan superiority only to be embarrassed by the (white aryan) German atheletes being beat by a Black American. Who would think to look in an old technology magazine about "ether jumpers" for a photo like this..... linc56mk2 I believe that the upper left hand picture may be of Jesse Owens at the Munich Olympics in 1936!

This may, in fact, be a significant historical photograph! The Nazi’s were beat by a black distance runner, Jesse Owens. The 1936 Olympics was where Germany was showcasing Aryan superiority only to be embarrassed by the (white aryan) German atheletes being beat by a Black American. Who would think to look in an old technology magazine about “ether jumpers” for a photo like this…..

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]]> By: fisheatingbagel http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/06/ether-jumpers-never-sleep/#comment-1048064 fisheatingbagel Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:37:37 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/06/ether-jumpers-never-sleep/#comment-1048064 I'm not clear on exactly what an ether jumper is (or was)? What this a reporter/engineer who traveled around the world searching for stories to broadcast over shortwave radio back to NBC headquarters? I’m not clear on exactly what an ether jumper is (or was)? What this a reporter/engineer who traveled around the world searching for stories to broadcast over shortwave radio back to NBC headquarters?

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