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Dec 16, 1907: First Wireless Radio Broadcast: opera singer Eugenia Farrar (1875 – May 17, 1966) became the first person to sing over a wireless radio broadcast when radio pioneer Lee de Forest broadcasted her voice from his lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. The song was heard by Oliver Wyckoff, radio operator on USS Dolphin in the nearby Navy Yard. On May 22, 1957, all three reunited on This Is Your Life. Star Trek actor DeForest Kelley was named after him.

This is Your Life

In 1907, radio pioneer Lee de Forest was working in his Manhattan lab on his "arc radiotelephone," a means to broadcast not just Morse code signals, but the human voice over radio waves. The exact date is lost to history, but he invited a Swedish-born opera singer to his laboratory to sing over the radio, which became the first documented case of an "entertainment" radio broadcast. Since radio was such a new invention, receivers were rare, and one of the few places you could find one was on board a Navy ship; by coincidence, USS Dolphin was equipped with a receiver, and radio operator Oliver Wyckoff picked up Eugenia Farrar singing "I Love You Truly" as the ship approached the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This is a story we have told for years at the Yard, but we only recently discovered that all three of these figures reunited 50 years later on an episode of This Is Your Life, in which we were able to hear, for the first time, Farrar sing. You can watch the episode on YouTube (part 1 & part 2).

Another 50 years later, there was another reunion, of sorts, at the Yard. Later in life, Wyckoff and Farrar became acquainted through the De Forest Pioneers radio club, and when she died in 1966 with no family, he kept her ashes, which were passed down in his family. When his great-granddaughter did not know what to do with them, she contacted the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and eventually, arrangements were made in 2010 to place them in a mausoleum in Green-Wood Cemetery (pictured above).

Turnstile Tours

Lee deForest, This is your Life 1957 (part 1)



Part 2: (Amazing life story in a nutshell) In the early 1900s (before WWI) the US Navy was his best friend.
https://youtu.be/st7BTaIqgwA


"I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication. [...] Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously." – Lee de Forest, 1952


Dec 16, 1917: Writer, futurist and inventor Arthur C. Clarke was born.
In 1964, he appeared on Horizon and gave some astonishing predictions about the future. "The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won't be men or monkeys. They'll be machines."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwELr8ir9qM


Dec 16, 1924: Twas that season again... Ten deaths in the last three days in New York are attributed to "the annual Christmas tide of poison rum." 67 patients are being treated at Bellevue Hospital for alcohol poisoning, many of them blinded. City chemist J.W. Quillan examines seized samples.




And rash of accidents too...

Dec 16, 1924: The first National Conference on Street and Highway Safety takes place in Washington, with 900 representatives studying ways to reduce crashes and save lives on the country’s ever-expanding road system. President Coolidge greets conferees at the White House. Among the ideas floated are to install giant crossword puzzles at railroad crossings, so that motorists would slow down to try to solve them, and avoid collisions with trains. Even the staid Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, presiding over the session, laughs at that nonsense.


1924: A First-of-a-Kind Highway Safety Conference Takes Place in Washington, D.C.



Dec 16, 1977: the Cold War thriller TELEFON premiered. Dial 800 (Toll Free) T-E-L-E-F-O-N." Disconnected. Symbolic of the malaise of the late '70s, MGM couldn't follow through on their cheesy TELEFON promotion gimmick. Fortunately, Vince Staten of the Dayton (OH) Daily News called the number and preserved his findings for history. The number had been disconnected by Dec. 20, 1977.


His book 58 Minutes (1987) was adapted into Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis.


In 21st century times I guess 'IT' restarted here...


Senator Marco Rubio stated, regarding the nature of the unknown objects, "There's stuff flying in our airspace and we don't know who it is and it's not ours. So we should know who it is, especially if it's an adversary that's made a technological leap."


2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

Sen Rubio We’ve got to get an answer': UFOs catch Congress’ interest

Meanwhile, in November 2024, President-elect Trump announced his intention to nominate Rubio as United States Secretary of State. Rubio would be the first Floridian as well as the first Latino (Cuban) to serve in the position and would be the highest-ranking Hispanic American official in U.S. history.

There is no objective, unbiased source for knowledge. All the media you consume is some kind of influence operation. Everything is information warfare.



LOL, Chinese AI propaganda. Canada beaver, ha, and what is the deal with the frogs? I assume the wolf is Italy? I get the elephant, but who is the black eagle on the far left? Germany? Toilet paper through money printer is rather clever.




Oh my, Drone Syndrome...


Daily Drone Exposure


Oh mercy no, say it isn't so...




I guess you could read the movie script then watch it or read along while watching it...


DEADLINE


Monday words... Lots of doggery-baw drone flap online today, some by the pettifogers, some by mud-nozzlers. I’d fancy a gadwattick to end my day.



"When Winter first begins to bite
    and stones crack in the frosty night,
When pools are black and trees are bare
    'tis evil in the Wild to fare."
— J.R.R. Tolkien