[MRCA] WWI Signal Corps Film

[Ray Fantini]

Millers “Photographic History of the Civil War” has one volume that has the Signal Corps that has multiple photographs of different signal towers built during the war. Was looking at it because of the conversation.  Several huge seventy five or hundred feet tall towers for signaling. There is also a chapter on telegraph operations and the Balloon service.

Observation Balloons were used throughout the war and imagine maybe the Wright Flyer was seen as a extension of the balloons? So that would be the grounds for evaluation at a later date.


Find it interesting in the Civil War telegraph operators were civilian employees and many of the military did not trust them as such, also that it was forbidden for any military members to be authorized or know how the ciphers worked.

I got a key, sounder and a wet cell battery and maybe if someone else can bring theirs out to Gilbert this year we can do a real vintage communications set up!


Forty or fifty years ago had a TG-5 but never did anything with it and traded it away, would kind of like to have another just to play around with today. Assume that they were built to work with existing signal wire land line telegraph circuits?



Friday are slow days, not that any have been busy with this Covid stuff and staying at home so it gives me an excuse to write about obscure and arcane things and try to push forward into the past.



 Wont put up any more random thoughts!


Ray F/KA3EKH


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Further to my initial email (below) on the subject:   http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Wright_Story/Showing_the_World/Back_in_Air/Signal_Corps_Spec.htm





73 de

Gene Smar  AD3F





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Signal Corps also was the Wright brothers first customer. SC purchased a couple of the original designs and test  flew them in the DC area.



73 de

Gene Smart AD3F



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Subject: [MRCA] WWI Signal Corps Film
Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2020 8:25 PM

Hi Ken,

The Signal Corps was the Army's IT department since about 1861.  They trained photographers and cinematographers.

AQl

On 4/30/2020 7:36 PM, Ken Krausgill wrote:

That’s fantastic Al, thank you for sending it out to us!



Super clean footage too!



Ken

KD2GFM



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Folks,

I stumbled upon a film on the National Archive site of Signal Corps Training in 1918.  Of course it's silent, and it's just a collection of clips without much information.  I've added some comments, identifying what things I could.

Take a look on my site:  http://www.ar88.net/sc/Sig_Corps_Training_1918_Rev_0-1.m4v

Let me know if you have anything to add or correct.  Can anyone identify the locations?  A college or whatever near the beginning, and a major base, and a parade in a city later on.

Enjoy,
Al



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