Did U.S. passenger trains in 1922 have telephones on them? If so, what kind?

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Some did. They were wireless radio-phones. Some did.

They were wireless radio-phones. earlyradiohistory.us/1922trn.htmScience and Invention, March 1922, page 1043:Radiophoning To and From "L" Trainsoutside photo IF the present plans of the Chicago Elevated Railroad do not miscarry, the patient straphangers will gladly pay the present fare of 8 cents without any murmur, and be willing to donate an extra dime or two for the privilege of riding on the elevated. The elevated system is figuring on installing a radio system on its cars and furnishing its passengers with songs, music, and even grand opera, on their way to and from work.

Pretty soon it will be a privilege to work; not only will the passenger be entertained, but it will be possible for you to call your home while in transit and suggest what kind of meat you want for dinner. The first trial of the radio was made on a Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee electric line recently. A dozen pretty girls from the offices of the line danced with the road officials to the strains of music transmitted from the radio station on top of the City Hall.

They were also able to carry on conversation, i. E. , talk to as well as hear, the chief of the fire alarm system in Chicago, and every test proved eminently successful.

One of the accompanying photos shows the girls, on the Chicago elevated train enjoying a dance to the music being sent from the radio transmitting station in Chicago. Another photograph shows a passenger talking from the moving train to his home in the city via radiophone, while the third photo shows how the antenna wires are mounted on insulators along either side of the roofs of the "L" train. The radiophone transmitting set used in this test was equipt with vacuum tubes for producing the necessary high frequency oscillatory current suitable for charging the antenna, together with a high voltage d.C.

Dynamo, the current from which is acted upon by the vacuum tubes in the production, as well as the voice modulation of the high frequency oscillations. Read more at:http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec004.htm Sources: http://earlyradiohistory.us/1922trn.htm .

WILLIAM CROOKES AND DAVID HUGHES Both the telegraph and the telephone transformed communications in the 1800s, and, at the close of the century, radio was poised to start a third revolution. Some of the earliest speculation about radio's future centered on the almost mystical idea of portable individual communication. In the opening remarks at the third annual dinner of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, held in London on November 13, 1891, the institute's president, William Crookes, spoke of the "bewildering possibility of telegraphy without wires, posts, cables, or any of our present costly appliances".

In the February, 1892 issue of Fortnightly Review, Crookes' Some Possibilities of Electricity expanded on this theme, and looked forward to the day when two persons could use radio signals to privately communicate with each other. Crookes' review included one particularly arresting sentence: "...some years ago I assisted at experiments where messages were transmitted from one part of a house to another without an intervening wire by almost the identical means here described". J.J. Fahie contacted Crookes about this intriguing statement, and was told that the unidentified experimenter was David Hughes (who had been present at the Institute's annual meeting in November) and, who, beginning in 1879, apparently had transmitted and received radio signals, although he was discouraged from further research by reviewers who thought he had not done anything unusual.In 1899, Fahie convinced Hughes to write a short memoir of what he had accomplished twenty years previously, which was included in the Researches of Prof. D.E. Hughes appendix of A story of Wireless Telegraphy.

A few months later Hughes was dead -- his obituary appeared in the January 26, 1900 issue of The Electrician. Two decades after that, the March 31, 1922 issue of The Electrician carried an announcement in Wireless Notes (Hughes Equipment) that the inventor's original instruments had been found in a storage area, and put on display at the Science Museum in South Kensington. A photograph of some of this equipment appeared in World's First Wireless Outfit Found in London Tenement, from the August, 1922 issue of Popular Science Monthly.

It is interesting to speculate how history might have been changed had Hughes been encouraged to continue his original research. PRE-RADIO DEVELOPMENTExperimentation in "wireless telephony" included technologies that predated radio, employing such things as induction instead of the electromagnetic radiation used by radio transmissions. None of these earlier approaches achieved commercial success, although some came close.

A. Frederick Collins was one of the better known experimenters along these lines, and two articles written by him, The Collins Wireless Telephone from the July 19, 1902 Scientific American, and Wireless Telephony from the March, 1905 The Technical World, reviewed photo-electric and induction systems developed by Collins, Alexander Graham Bell, and Ernest Ruhmer. Sources: http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec004.htm .

Passenger trains in 1922 Stamp collecting is an age-old hobby that holds the interest ofmillions of people the world over. Stamp collecting began in the1840's when the first stamps were issued. "Stamp madness," or"timbromania" swept through Europe and spread worldwide.

Stampcollecting is not as popular as it once was, but there are stillan estimated 25 million people in the US alone and over 200million around the world who still collect. It is not hard to get started in the infamous art of stampcollecting, nor is it overly expensive. There are a few musthave items needed to begin: tweezer-like tongs to handle stamps,a magnifying glass, a stamp album, and of course, the stamps.

Sources: askville.amazon.com/1922-silver-dollar-d... .

Teaching George C. Gross, 1922-2009. A small town high school history project is reuniting child survivors of the Holocaust worldwide with their American soldier liberators.

These thoughts are the observations of a twenty year teacher of the subject kids seem to hate the most, but the one that matters the most-not “social studies”-HISTORY. Yesterday my son turned 11. And at about 11 pm yesterday on the West Coast, Dr. Gross died at home with his family around him.

I just found out. More than anyone else, he is the one responsible for this website and the hundreds of lives changed because of it. You see, he took the photo that you may not really notice in the heading above, along with 9 other photographs that forever imprint the evidence not only of man’s inhumanity to man, but of the affirmation, hope and promise of mankind.It was he who wrote the prose that led me to the survivors, and vice versa.

And it was he who cultivated a deep friendship with me via his wonderful writings and telephone conversation. How amazed and happy he seemed to be to hear from all the survivors.In the summer of 2001, I did an interview with his comrade in arms, army buddy Carrol Walsh. Judge Walsh put me in touch with Dr. Gross.

If you go back through the archives you know the rest of the story.It has changed my life and the lives of my students in that we are now trying to rescue the evidence, the testimony of the Holocaust and the World War Two veterans, for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. And today I received in the mail a bulletin from this Museum, reaffirming the mission that Dr. Gross had everything to do with setting me on. He came into my life during a dark time for me- we had just lost our father (who thankfully, like Dr. Gross, passed on from his own bed at home), and our mother was battling the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease, or dementia, or whatever that nightmare was called….

We began a conversation that has yielded so much fruit. Sources: http://teachinghistorymatters.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/george-c-gross-1922-2009/ .

UNITED STATES EARLY RADIO HISTORY After Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the existence of radio waves, some were enchanted by the idea that this remarkable scientific advance could be used for personal, mobile communication. But it would take decades before the technology would catch up with the idea. WILLIAM CROOKES AND DAVID HUGHESBoth the telegraph and the telephone transformed communications in the 1800s, and, at the close of the century, radio was poised to start a third revolution.

Some of the earliest speculation about radio's future centered on the almost mystical idea of portable individual communication. In the opening remarks at the third annual dinner of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, held in London on November 13, 1891, the institute's president, William Crookes, spoke of the "bewildering possibility of telegraphy without wires, posts, cables, or any of our present costly appliances". In the February, 1892 issue of Fortnightly Review, Crookes' Some Possibilities of Electricity expanded on this theme, and looked forward to the day when two persons could use radio signals to privately communicate with each other.

Crookes' review included one particularly arresting sentence: "...some years ago I assisted at experiments where messages were transmitted from one part of a house to another without an intervening wire by almost the identical means here described". J. J.

Fahie contacted Crookes about this intriguing statement, and was told that the unidentified experimenter was David Hughes (who had been present at the Institute's annual meeting in November) and, who, beginning in 1879, apparently had transmitted and received radio signals, although he was discouraged from further research by reviewers who thought he had not done anything unusual. In 1899, Fahie convinced Hughes to write a short memoir of what he had accomplished twenty years previously, which was included in the Researches of Prof. D. E.

Hughes appendix of A story of Wireless Telegraphy. A few months later Hughes was dead -- his obituary appeared in the January 26, 1900 issue of The Electrician. Two decades after that, the March 31, 1922 issue of The Electrician carried an announcement in Wireless Notes (Hughes Equipment) that the inventor's original instruments had been found in a storage area, and put on display at the Science Museum in South Kensington.

A photograph of some of this equipment appeared in World's First Wireless Outfit Found in London Tenement, from the August, 1922 issue of Popular Science Monthly. It is interesting to speculate how history might have been changed had Hughes been encouraged to continue his original research. PRE-RADIO DEVELOPMENTExperimentation in "wireless telephony" included technologies that predated radio, employing such things as induction instead of the electromagnetic radiation used by radio transmissions.

None of these earlier approaches achieved commercial success, although some came close. A. Frederick Collins was one of the better known experimenters along these lines, and two articles written by him, The Collins Wireless Telephone from the July 19, 1902 Scientific American, and Wireless Telephony from the March, 1905 The Technical World, reviewed photo-electric and induction systems developed by Collins, Alexander Graham Bell, and Ernest Ruhmer.

EARLY RADIO DEVELOPMENT AND SPECULATIONWhile radio communication was still at the fledgling stage, a commentator in the London Spectator, quoted in the November 4, 1901 edition of the Los Angeles Times, looked ahead to what The Wireless Age might bring, predicting that "Some day men and women will carry wireless telephones as today we carry a card case or camera. " Guglielmo Marconi was soon experimenting with mobile communication, as reported in Military Automobile for Wireless Telegraphy from the July 27, 1901 Western Electrician, and in a speech to a New York City meeting of the Automobile Club of America, reprinted in the May, 1902, The Cosmopolitan, suggested that in the future Wireless Telegraphy from an Automobile would be a "handy thing for automobiles in general". Charles Mulford Robinson, in the June, 1902 The Cosmopolitan, speculated about the effect unchaperoned Wireless Telegraphy communication would have on romance, and, more practically, suggested the new technology would ensure up-to-the-minute shopping lists.(Twenty years later, romance was still on people's minds, as a song published in 1922, Kiss Me By Wireless proclaimed "There's a wireless station down in my heart... operating just for you and me".) ................... Sources: http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec004.htm .

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.