[Milsurplus] Radio on the Frontlines: WWI and WWII | DPLA

[Hubert Miller]

Perhaps Britain was exceptionally advanced, but Germany was certainly manufacturing military crystal sets to the end of the war.
-Hue

>When the war began we had a general staff whose concept of war was charging on horseback with sabres drawn. Doesn't always work when charging machineguns. In the UK the Royal Navy was first to adopt wide use of wireless to contact ships at sea.
WW1 was a learning war in technology. Runners were targeted, telephone/telegraph lines blown up, pigeons shot or eaten by birds of prey. Signal lamps were effective up to their maximum range but it became clear that wireless could be the answer.
With the development of tube based sets I was surprised to see that the US was still making crystal sets in 1918 (BC14A).

Bruce
M0SOE
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