Contributed by National Archives at Boston
Description
Charles A. Hoxie of General Electric Co., developed the high speed radio receiver that is shown at the Navy's Otter Cliffs Radio Station. Hoxie is credited with the photographic telegraph recorder for radio reception.
The Navy operated the radio receiver on Mount Desert Island from 1917 to 1933.
Hoxie's receiver was first tested at GE at Chatham, Massachusetts, then sent to Otter Cliffs radio station in 1918.
About This Item
- Title: Otter Cliffs radio receiver, 1918
- Creator: Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Security Group Command. Naval Security Group Activity, Winter Harbor, Maine.
- Creation Date: 1918
- Subject Date: 1918
- Location: Mount Desert Island, Hancock County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: ARC # 5730613, Box 9, 12/18/09-6
- Collection: Record Group 181: Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments; Historical Records (Winter Harbor)
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Military personnel--United States
- Military facilities--Maine
- Mount Desert Island (Me.)
- Naval yards & naval stations--Maine
- Antennas (Electronics)
- Communication facilities
- United States. Navy
- World War, 1914-1918
- Radio & television towers--Maine
- Acadia National Park (Me.)
- Radio stations--Maine
- Radio photographs--Maine
- Radios
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