[CW] Thorn Mayes, W6AX Interviews
D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
n1ea at arrl.net
Sun Nov 5 10:50:15 EST 2023
I posted an incorrect callsign for Thorn before so I decided I'd post his
QSL card, but I couldn't find it with a search for W6AX, I had to use the
wrong callsign instead.
More recordings by Thorn Mayes, W6AX
https://archive.org/search?query=thorn+mayes
Also his excellent book is still available here:
https://newsm.org/shop/
Wireless Communication in the United States
The Early Development of American Radio Operating Companies
by Thorn L. Mayes, W6AX
Thorn Mayes book coverThorn 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
sparcs, 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The appendix includes fresh opinions from excerpts of unpublished letters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.
W6AX callsign QSL card attached,
73
DR
On Sun, Nov 5, 2023, 10:28 AM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
> Thank you Richard for the additional recordings by Thorn Mayes, W6VX
> https://archive.org/search?query=thorn+mayes
> Also his excellent book is still available here:
>
> https://newsm.org/shop/
> 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 sparcs, 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.
>
> 73
>
> DR
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2023, 9:17 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I reposted the link. Should be
>> <https://archive.org/search?query=thorn+mayes>
>> Which includes the talk you link to.
>> I have his book on early wireless, has lots of stuff you won't find
>> eleswhere.
>>
>> On 11/4/2023 5:57 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>> > History Of Wireless Communication To 1930
>> > by Thorn Mayes
>> >
>> > https://archive.org/details/historyofwirelesscommunicationto1930
>> > <https://archive.org/details/historyofwirelesscommunicationto1930>
>> >
>> > Publication date 1975-04-04
>> >
>> > “History of Wireless Communication to 1930.” April 4, 1975, 52 min.
>> Talk
>> > by early wireless historian Thorn Mayes about commercial, government
>> and
>> > amateur radio operations beginning in about 1897. Development of radio
>> > communication beginning with spark transmission and continuing thru
>> > early vacuum tubes to about 1930. Includes examples of the sound of
>> > multiple spark transmissions (QRM). From the Thorn Mayes Sound
>> > Recordings (#02-5C), Perham Collection of Early Electronics, History
>> San
>> > Jose. Transferred from audiocassette in 2015.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Uploaded by
>> > HistorySanJose
>> > on September 10, 2015
>> >
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>> > On Sat, Nov 4, 2023, 4:50 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
>> > <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thorn Mayes was a historian of early wireless and radio. He
>> > interviewed many of the wireless pioneers. I found many of those
>> > interviews on Archive.org at:
>> > <https://archive.org/search?query=thorn+mayes+interviews
>> > <https://archive.org/search?query=thorn+mayes+interviews>>
>> > --
>> > Richard Knoppow
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