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Marconi AntennaTower Sign, Binghamton NY . . (Photos from 07 September 2007)
Erected November 1913 by Guglielmo Marconi to test the possibility of transmitting telegraphic signals to the moving trains along the Lackawanna RR in Binghamton NY USA. This is the last one still in existence.
Location Binghamton, New York USA . . N 42.10342 W 75.90705 . . Uploaded 30 June 2012
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. . . compiled by Scott M. Phillips, Sr. Binghamton, NY 10/1/98 . . .
Marconi Tower Project Concept
Early 1913, when radio was still in it's infancy, it was unknown if radio transmissions could be sent to a fast moving object. Guglielmo Marconi wished to expand the use of the radio to include vehicles that moved on land as well as water and test the possibility of transmitting telegraphic signals to moving trains along the Lackawanna Railroad system in the Northeast United States. Two cities- Binghamton, NY and Scranton, PA were chosen as the two tower sites to be built by the Lackawanna Railroad using Marconi’s construction and design in early 1913.Each tower site consisted of two towers linked together with 4 aerial wires. Radio telegraph equipment was placed within the railroad stations and comprised of a 2 KW 500 cycle quenching transmitter made by the Marconi Company.
On November 27th 1913, the first "official" wireless transmission was transmitted from Scranton, PA towards the train traveling to Binghamton, NY at 60 miles per hour. In all, 350 words representing several pieces of news were clearly picked up by the operator aboard the train.
Location / General Information
The last remaining Marconi Tower is located in downtown Binghamton, New York at Lewis Street near the old Lackawanna Train Station (recently renamed Station Square). A beautiful new baseball stadium (Binghamton Mets) now sits proudly next to the tower, from the first base line the tower can be clearly seen. Constructed of open grid framed carbon steel and standing at 97 feet 4 inches tall, the tower has endured the weather year by year and is in somewhat remarkable condition considering the neglect and age. Presently there is no communication equipment installed on or near the tower. The second Binghamton Marconi tower, that was located near the Chenango Street viaduct, was dismantled in January 1925. The other two towers at the Scranton, PA tower site have long been taken down.
Marconi Transmitting / Receiving Technical Information
Radio / Telegraph equipment was placed within the railroad stations and comprised of a 2 KW 500 cycle quenching transmitter made by the Marconi Company with coupled circuit receiving tuner and crystal detector.
Power for the sending outfit was taken at 60 cycles, 3 phase from the station driving a Crocker-Wheeler motor generator giving 2 KW, single phase, 500 cycle current. Passing through the sending key circuit to a step-up transformer, the 500 cycle current charged a bank of six (6) leyden jars (.002uf each) in parallel. These jars discharged at each half cycle across a multiple plate quenching spark gap and through the primary of the oscillation transformer. The secondary was serially connected in the antenna to ground circuit. This oscillation transformer was made of two (2) flat spiral strip-copper windings coaxial related, having a variable self-inductance in both windings and variable coupling between the primary and secondary.
The motor of the motor-generator was wound for 30 volts DC and the 500 cycle current, after passing through the high tension transformer, charged a bank of three .002uf leyden jars in parallel. These jars were discharged at each half cycle.
The power boards located on the train were similar to the power board installed at the train stations, but rated at 1/2 the power. It was necessary to have an aerial 150 feet long, so four regular cars of the "Lackawanna Limited" had aerial wires strung on insulators, on posts about 16" high, around the roofs of each car.
A wave length of about 1,600 meters (187.4 kilocycles) was generally used with approximately a 2 ampere of radio frequency current set up in the antenna circuit. This is approximately 342.5 KC below the present low end AM kilocycle band of 540 KC.
The Radio - Telegraph equipment installed on board the train was located in the baggage car and comprised of a 1 KW 500 cycle transmitter directly run from a storage battery used on the line of the axle-driven car lighting system without seriously affecting the illuminating system.
. . . compiled by Scott M. Phillips, Sr. Binghamton, NY 10/1/98 . . .
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SuAnne Big Crow Recreation Center - Boys & Girls Club, Pine Ridge, SD. Financed by USDA Rural Development. Photo by James Pendleton, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
I-40 west bound. This is the same sign they were using in 1989 when I last visited Oklahoma.
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Directions sign
Cofton Common straight ahead on the B4096.
Birmingham to the left on the B4120 and Barnt Green to the right on the B4120.
Roadside neon marquee for the Circle Drive-In Theater, in Dickson City, just outside of Scranton PA.
This sign was for northbound traffic.
529 E. Avenida Pico, San Clemente, 7-13-2006. Almost all of these signs with the "Jolly Roger" font are long gone. The new ones don't have nearly as much character.
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FYI: THIS is the artsy photo composition I captured from this location.
Love the colors and the details of a very typical city scene in Phoenix, Arizona. I've heard that this area has the highest per capita concentration of strip joints in the US. In particular I think that Tempe, Arizona is the specific nexus of this kind of commercial enterprise. In any case, I could not resist getting this shot; nice photography of signs, eh?
FYI: I almost actually added the tag of "adult video" to this image, LOL. Can you imagine how disappointed some people would be if they clicked to this image?
Part of an ad from February, 1986 announcing the Jefferson Ward stores in the Delaware Valley were becoming Bradlees.
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW, San Antonio, Texas
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
Billboard Locations:
1 / Highway 78 ES 0.2mi. S/O Loop 1604 F/NE
2 / Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW
3 / Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE
4 / Austin highway ES 520ft. N/O Vandiver F/NE
5 / Rigsby NS 75ft. W/O Irwin F/W
6 / US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W
7 / Grissom SS 0.2mi. W/O Timber Path F/E
8 / Military SW NS 300ft. W/O new Laredo Highway F/W
9 / Babcock WS 250ft. S/O Springtime F/S "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
1/4 Lb Burger Express, 5325 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, California. Mmmm, burgers. I've always been meaning to try this place.
Pushteti popullor lindi nga gryka e pushkës = El poder popular nacio usando la escopeta ="The power of the people was born from the barrel of a rifle".
Foto suporte de matéria especial do Portal D Moto - veja a matéria em: portaldmoto.com.br/no-caminho-do-sol/
2nd September 2007
Burston, Norfolk, England, UK
Burston Strike School Rally
Every year, since 1984, there is a rally and picnic on Church Green in front of the Strike School to commemorate the first rally in 1914, the opening of the School in 1917 and the work of the Higdons. The Rally is held on the first Sunday in September and is an opportunity to hear speeches by trade union leader, politicians, and activists in the Labour movement.
Union branches bring their banners and there is a march around "The Candlestick" to commemorate the children's original march in 1914. The green is covered with stalls selling all manner of goods and promoting the holders' ideas and services. There is also a refreshment tent where beer, sandwiches and burgers are served and you can listen to live bands or meet with friends. It is a really fun day.
Past speakers include: Tony Benn, Jack Boddy, Ron Todd, Joan Maynard, Jimmy Knapp, Bill Morris, Barry Leathwood, Rodney Bickerstaffe, Jack Jones, Tony Banks, Bruce Kent, Dennis Skinner, John Prescott, Arthur Scargill, Doug McAvoy, John Monks, Ken Livingstone, Ian Gibson, Glennys Kinnock, Tam Dalyell, John Edmunds, and many many more.
Burston Strike School Rally - 'the longest strike in history'
On 1 April 1914 the pupils of Burston School marched in support of their two dismissed teachers, Tom and Kitty Higdon. The Higdons were closely associated with the Agricultural Workers' Union which brought them into conflict with the squirarchy and the Church of England which was responsible for the education of children in the countryside.
Association with the farm workers' union and Tom's election to the Parish Council as a Labour member had prompted the dismissals. The school children, 66 out of 72, had gone on strike. This was to be the first day of the longest strike in history.
The Strike School, the alternative to the CoE County School from where the Higdons had seen sacked, was firstly located in the blacksmith's workshop and latterly in purpose built premises erected on Burston Village Green by Labour Movement subscription.
The Strike School continued to function until the beginning of the Second World War. Tom Higdon died on 17 August 1939 and the school closed a few months later. Kitty, then in her seventies, was unable to carry on alone and the remaining pupils transferred to the County School. Kitty died on 24 April 1946.
In 1949 the Strike School was registered as an educational charity. There are 4 self-perpetuating trustees who, with the support of the T&G, manage the school and try to develop it as a museum, visitor centre, educational archive and village amenity.
Since 1984, an annual rally has been held in Burston to commemorate the first rally held in 1914 and celebrate the struggles that took place in Burston in the first half of the last century - a celebration of a challenge to the old rural order that has yet to be completed, but continues to be inspired by the struggle that began in Burston.
"But there really can be no peace or victory for us which does not bring with it freedom for the countryside, liberty and life for the labourer and prosperity and plenty to his home and family. The labourer must henceforth take his place industrially, socially and politically with the best and foremost of the land. He must do this himself - by the force and power of his union. And he can!" Tom Higdon in The Labourer January 1917.