George SQUIER
Tree Antenna
General George O. Squier
Scientific American ( July 14, 1919, p. 624 ) ~"With Trees For Ears"
A Wireless Station Within the Reach of Everybody
With a pair of receives to his ears, an amazed visitor to a certain radio station heard a high-toned hum which changed to a low growl, then skied to the upper reaches of the musical scale in a
faint, very faint buzz, as if some microscopic mosquito had had his song made audible. The operator rapidly rapidly turning the knobs on his couplers and condensers, raised his hand: suddenly, through the changing radio signals which were clamoring for attention together in the receivers came his voice; "There --- the loud, easily heard one is New Brunswick; the fainter, lower one is Nauen, in Germany".
If all this had taken place in the great Arlington station one would not have wondered, save perhaps at the inability to tune out all radio but Nau…login to view the rest of this post