Preserving Camp Evans to enable
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Science-History Center to give Camp Evans a future in education.
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The Marconi
Hotel hosts the InfoAge concept center on the first floor west wing.
The Quarter Century Wireless Association has an exhibit of the history
of Marconi in
New
Jersey and basic wireless technology.
Bob Buus of the QCWA created a wired
telegraphy system in minature.
A person can send a message in Morris code from the key on this table,
up the line of minature telegraph poles, across the ceiling, down the
opposite wall,
to the table across the room.
Wire telegraphy predates wireless telegraphy by nearly 50 years.
The codes
and procedures provided the foundation for wireless telegraphy once
Marconi
had advanced the technology from a scientific demonstration to a usable
communications system. Once the telegraph companies
had a monopoly on
trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific communication.
Marconi's wireless system changed all that.
The room also features ham radio equipment.
On the wall is a display of QST cards and the Morris code alphabet.
This is Bob Buus and Bernie Ricciardi at the exhibit on Sunday
afternoons.
Thanks to the QCWA we are making excellent
progress.
When InfoAge expands after the transfer of the remainder of the Camp
Evans historic district the QCWA will expand with us.
Page updated September 7,
2007
page created August
29,
2007
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