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Mr C. J. Melrose beside his plane at Mildenhall Aerodrome before the start of the MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia, 1934; this is one of the first three photographs digitally transmitted by radio, in the world

Format: 1 gelatin silver photoprint

 

Notes: Photographs received from London in Sydney during the first experimental transmission over the Beam Wireless Picturegram Service, 1934

 

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Uploaded on September 21, 2008
Taken sometime in 1934