Modern Mechanix
Issue: Nov, 1929
Posted in: Aviation, Radio
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Posted: 04/01/2008
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Huge Wireless Station Receives Messages of Zeppelin on World Tour (Nov, 1929)

Huge Wireless Station Receives Messages of Zeppelin on World Tour

All the latest devices of radio-land are in service in this huge wireless station at Nauen, Germany. Radio messages sent from the Graf Zeppelin on its epochal flight around the world passed through the receiving apparatus shown in the photo above. The Nauen station acted as clearing-house for the correspondents aboard the dirigible.

Related posts:

  1. Tour of a Very Early TV Station (Nov, 1931)
  2. Wireless Box Runs Radio by Remote Control (Aug, 1938)
  3. First Girl to Tour World by Auto (Sep, 1929)
  4. Planes “Type” Messages in Sky (Oct, 1949)
  5. “Mail Box” for Telegrams Transmits Messages (Jun, 1939)
3 comments
  1. jocksBASS says: April 3, 20085:57 am

    that floor would be epic gangster to breakdance on

  2. Fred Olsen says: April 21, 20086:19 am

    jocksBASS = moron

  3. Charlie says: May 28, 200912:40 am

    Firebrand38: spammed them both

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