This week Bell Labs plans to roll out the Telephone, the first viable Telegraph alternative, but reports indicate they may not be ready. Many of the rollers are said to be jammed and the Telephone might have to be carried out instead. For agreeing to help lift the contraption, we have been given exclusive access to what experts are already calling “a device which emits sound and is not filled with bees.”
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by Hudson Hongo
[McSweeney’s Internet Tendency]
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Letter Of Note of the Day: A telegram from former U.S. Naval Operations Chief, Admiral Edward W. Eberle, cabled to all Naval stations on August 22, 1924, ahead of an extremely close Mars opposition, requesting that airwaves be monitored for potential Martian contact.
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TRANSCRIPT:
WASHINGTON-ALASKA MILITARY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM: TELEGRAM
RECEIVED At 1308 1st Avenue, Seattle, Wash.
18RD B 78 GOVT DUPE
RD PUGETSOUND WN AUG 22 1924 | GOVT COMDT 13 NAV DIST 158 SEATTLE WN
7021 ALNAVST EIGHT NAVY DESIRE COOPERAT ASTRONOMERS WHO BELIEVE POSSIBLE THAT MARS MAY ATTEMPT COMMUNICATION BY RADIO WAVES WITH THIS PLANE WHILE THEY ARE NEAR TOGETHER THIS END ALL SHORE RADIO STATIONS WILL ESPECIALLY NOTE AND REPORT ANY ELECTRICAL PHENOMENON UNUSUAL CHARACTER AND WILL COVER AS WIDE BAND FREQUENCIES AS POSSIBLE FROM 2400 AUGUST TWENTY FIRST TO 2400 AUGUST TWENTY FOURTH WITHOUT INTERFERRING (sic) WITH TRAFFIC 1800
SECNAV WASHN DC
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Letter Of Note of the Day: A telegram from former U.S. Naval Operations Chief, Admiral Edward W. Eberle, cabled to all Naval stations on August 22, 1924, ahead of an extremely close Mars opposition, requesting that airwaves be monitored for potential Martian contact.
[via.]
TRANSCRIPT:
WASHINGTON-ALASKA MILITARY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM: TELEGRAM
RECEIVED At 1308 1st Avenue, Seattle, Wash.
18RD B 78 GOVT DUPE
RD PUGETSOUND WN AUG 22 1924 | GOVT COMDT 13 NAV DIST 158 SEATTLE WN
7021 ALNAVST EIGHT NAVY DESIRE COOPERAT ASTRONOMERS WHO BELIEVE POSSIBLE THAT MARS MAY ATTEMPT COMMUNICATION BY RADIO WAVES WITH THIS PLANE WHILE THEY ARE NEAR TOGETHER THIS END ALL SHORE RADIO STATIONS WILL ESPECIALLY NOTE AND REPORT ANY ELECTRICAL PHENOMENON UNUSUAL CHARACTER AND WILL COVER AS WIDE BAND FREQUENCIES AS POSSIBLE FROM 2400 AUGUST TWENTY FIRST TO 2400 AUGUST TWENTY FOURTH WITHOUT INTERFERRING (sic) WITH TRAFFIC 1800
SECNAV WASHN DC
257P