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7.1/2018: Erik Born – Going Wireless in the Belle Epoque

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Figure 15: “Im drahtlosen Zeitalter!” [In the wireless age]. Image Credit: Drawing by Barlog, reprinted in C.K. Roellinghoff, “Radio im Humor,” p. 87.
Figure 14: “Telefunkenstation / Gruss vom Weinburg Nauen Stadtforst” [Telefunken station / Greetings from Nauen Stadtforst vineyard]. Image Credit: Geschichtsspuren.de
Figure 13: “Eine unangenehme Weihnachtsüberraschung” [An unpleasant surprise on Christmas]. Image Credit: Drawing by Heath W. Robinson, reprinted in C.K. Roellinghoff, “Radio im Humor,” pp. 82–83.
Figure 12: “Antenna support structure”. Image Credit: Robert P. Juengert und Edward Weingart, US Patent Nr. US5611176 A (18. Mar. 1997).
Figure 11: “Für das kommende Frühlingsreinemachen. Vorrichtung zur Säuberung der Antenne” [For your upcoming spring cleaning: a device for cleaning your antenna].
Figure 10: “The Wireless Era will create a State like the Socialist Dream”. Image Credit: Ivan Narodny, “Marconi’s Plans for the World”
Figure 9: “Drahtlose Telephonie. Eine Allegorie von Ernst Lübbert.” [An allegory of wireless telephony by Ernst Lübbert]. Image Credit: Robert Sloss, “Das drahtlose Jahrhundert,” in Die Welt in Hundert Jahren, p. 41.
Figure 8: “F.H. Collins. Magneto Ear Phone”. Image Credit: U.S. patent 622,328, issued April 4, 1899; reprinted in Grant Wythoff, “Pocket Wireless,” p. 40.
Figure 7: “Wo sollen wir bloß bleiben, — wenn doch alles drahtlos wird!” [Where should we go when everybody goes wireless!”]. Image Credit: Buen Humor, Madrid, reprinted in C.K. Roellinghoff, “Radio im Humor,” p. 80.
Figure 6: “Un quartier embrouillé” [A tangled neighborhood]. Image Credit: Albert Robida, Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique, pp. 128–129.
Figure 5: “Old Swiss Road, Built by the Romans, Lined with Granite Telegraph Poles”. Image Credit: Popular Mechanics (December 1911), p. 851.
Figure 4: “Model pole line on First Avenue”. Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly 33, p. 596.
Figure 3: “Removing the telegraph poles in Union Square, New York City”. Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly 33, p. 337.
Figure 2: “Disorderly wires on Lower Broadway about to be cut down”. Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly 33, p. 601.
Figure 1: “Telephone lines, New York, [ca.] 1888”. Image Credit: Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, p. 6.