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.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Paris-Lake Chad Wireless.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 4, 1913:
Messages Exchanged Between Eiffel Tower and Heart of Africa.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
PARIS, March 3.— At a council of Ministers to-day the Minister of the Colonies informed his colleagues that wireless messages were exchanged yesterday for the flrst time between the Eiffel Tower and Lake Chad in Central Africa.
The distance is about 2,810 miles.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, March 4, 2013

Paris-Lake Chad Wireless.

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