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[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

I butchered part of that, Thorn Mayes book is available at news.org
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Book

Wireless Communication in the United States
The Early Development of American Radio Operating Companies
by Thorn L. Mayes

Thorn L. Mayes was an electrical engineer who grew up in the time he
wrote about. He knew wireless and many of the people who developed it.
The book is a factual account of alternators, arcs and sparks, and
coherers, barretters and tikkers! It tells of great engineering
achievements. It describes unscrupulous stock promotions that by
chance yielded some technical breakthroughs.

This book covers the glory days of high powered wireless, three
hundred thousand watt spark transmitters, one million watt arc
transmitters, and the mighty Alexanderson alternators with antennas as
long as nine miles–systems that gave dependable world wide radio
communication over seventy years ago–as well as the business history
of early radio.

The appendix includes fresh opinions from excerpts of unpublished
letters of pioneers, and early drawings of well designed, quenched gap
spark transmitters, which are far more than the blunderbuss static
generators that they have been taken for.