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to divulge its science secrets By JOHN A. HARNES
Camp Evans was
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FRED CARL
Army turns over this for-
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From Page B1 district at Camp Evans was added to the National Register
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collection . This includes the National Broadcasters
Hall of Fame and more than 7,000 pieces of computer
history. Carl said the collection includes select parts from the first digital computer, which was made during World War II many other early omputers and hundreds of exam-ples of technology improvements overthe last 40 years. Henry Kearney, Fort Monmouth spokesman, said the historic dis-trict of the Evans Area will be transferred to Wall, through the federal Department of the Interior, as two parcels. The first parcel should be transferred this summer, and the second parcel in spring 2003. "After the Army assigns the property to Interior, it may take a few more months to complete the |
final transfer to Wall Township," Kearney said. Also,
Wall must apply to the Interior Department
for use of the historic property and have its application approved before the Army can complete the transfer. "The people of the United States and the Armed Forces will forever be indebted to Camp Evans for the contributions made by its scientists and engineers in the emergence of today's technology revolution," said Richard Bingham, CECOM and Fort Monmouth historian. Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical-engineering pioneer who invented the wireless telegraph, and his company, Marconi American Wireless Co., acquired the site that was used from 1912 to 1926 as the Marconi Wireless Station. |
The Army acquired the site in 1941,
and Fort Monmouth's radar
laboratories were moved into the old buildings that served the wireless station. The radar equipment designed and tested there was in use from the first minutes of World War II. For example, it was a radar unit designed by camp engineers that spotted the enemy planes 50 minutes before the Pearl Harbor attack Camp Evans engineers sparked the imagination of the world and set people's sights on space explo-ration on Jan. 10, 1946, when they used the Diana Radar to bounce a radar signal off the moon, proving that radio communication from Earth to space was possible. From the 1950s to the 1980s, Camp Evansdesigned equipment |
was used in Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, space exploration
and Desert Storm.
Kearney said the Army Communications-Electronics Command's Research Development and Engi- neering Center Outreach Program has been working closely with INFOAGE and has surveyed the wealth of science and math related information accumulated by the center. "As a result, the curriculum for this year's Fort Monmouth math and science summer camps for high school students will be extracted from some of those educational resources," Kearney said . INFOAGE has actually opened inside one of the historic buildings at 2201 Marconi Road, directly across the street from the old Marconi Hotel. Carl is trying to have |
this building open to the public from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sundays, but it will be closed tomorrow. When all the historic buildings are available, INFOAGE will have about 180,000 square feet of space, with more than 100,000 square feet of it for exhibits . Anyone interested in learning more, or becoming a volunteer, can call INFOAGE at (732) 280-3000. ON THE WEB
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