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Physical Measurement Laboratory

The Story of an Old Timer: East Building

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Below is a picture of the Navy's wireless laboratory in the North end of the fourth floor of the East Building (December 1915). Note: the standard capacitor and inductor on the table and the two-coil direction finder on the right.

Navy wireless lab
antenna in snow

To the right, is a picture of an antenna mast that buckled in a snow storm in March of 1914.

It was located just east of the East Building. Only known antenna associated with the East Building.

Time and frequency

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Created February 28, 2017, Updated August 16, 2022
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