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Description: | 25th June 1919.
Image shows the interior of a marquee where exhibits are on display located at the Royal Air Force Aircraft Exhibition held in Roundhay Park in 1919. This was possibly ?Space No. 4? as described in the souvenir programme. It contained the wireless exhibits as well as being the venue of demonstrations of wireless telegraphy and telephony. Visitors were encouraged to interact with some of the equipment and work the large transmitting sets. The programme states that it is ?possible to hear most of the large stations in the world, signalling at different times of the day. The Eiffel Tower, Paris, and the large German stations will be constantly heard?. It goes on to state the great importance of the development of wireless telephony during the war ? ?it makes it possible to carry out ordinary telephonic speeches with a person in the air, although there is no connection between them and the ground.? It also says that ?sets were actually in use in June, 1914, making it possible for two machines in the air, and twenty miles apart, to keep in constant communication.? Visitors could pay 6d for an opportunity to test the set. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Royal Air Force Aircraft Exhibition war Roundhay Park | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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