In a message dated 12/1/99 6:12:16 PM !!!First Boot!!!,
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>     And you think sending photos over the Net takes too much
>     time? On this day in 1924, RCA demonstrated the first
>     wireless photographic transmission from London to New York
>     City via radio waves. Each image took over 20 minutes to
>     send.
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And large acreage of Long Island was used to do it. One spot, out near Rocky
Point, NY was recently given to the State as parkland, over 5000 acres. Named
after General Saranov (check spelling) whose RCA research center is across
Route 1 from Princeton, NJ and next to where the Martians Landed in Orson
Wells' sendoff of "War of the Worlds," Grovers Mills, NJ, contained a large
prehistoric site near the Millstone River. Various places on Long Island, NY
still have some of the names such as "Wireless Road."

George J. Myers, Jr.