A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Hear Argentine Wireless.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 5, 1913:
Newport Station Catches Message 7,000 or 8,000 Miles Away.
Special to The New York Times.
    NEWPORT, R. I., March 4.— What may be the longest distance covered by wireless was reported this morning at the Naval Radio Station.
    The operators heard two wireless stations in the Argentine Republic exchanging messages. They are between 7,000 and 8,000 miles away.
    The atmospheric conditions were perfect for this work.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Hear Argentine Wireless.

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