[NJARC] Lecture: Interception and Secrecy In World War I Telecommunications

[Alex Magoun]

Dr. Elizabeth Bruton gives a public lecture on "Blurred Lines: Interception
and Secrecy In World War I Telecommunications" at Rutgers' Alexander
Library in New Brunswick on Wednesday, October 23, at 4:30 pm.  This event
is free and includes refreshments.

Bruton, one of the world's leading scholars of early telecommunications,
will explore the interception techniques developed during the First World
War and explain how concerns for security and secrecy shaped the
development of telecommunications.  Telecommunications and their
interception have been major features of military and civilian life since
the early twentieth century. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, some
of the earliest actions involved curtailing enemy telecommunications while
guaranteeing the security and safety of their own modes of
telecommunication. Dr. Bruton focuses on Britain, but will also examine
U.S. activities, including those of New Jersey stations and amateurs.

This event is co-sponsored by the Rutgers University Department of History,
The Rutgers Oral History Archives, the IEEE History Center, The Rutgers
Center for Historical Analysis and The Thomas Edison Papers Project.

For more information visit
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/1553-upcoming-events
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Alexander B. Magoun, Ph.D., Outreach Historian
IEEE History Center
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New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8538 USA

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