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, July 8, 2013

Solves Wireless 'Phone.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 8, 1913:
French Professor Said to Have Perfected Long-Distance Machine.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
PARIS, Tuesday, July 8.— Without going into details. The Journal this morning announces that Prof. d'Arsonval of the College of France has invented a system of wireless telephony, which, when put in operation in October, will transmit messages for long distances. "In 1914," adds The Journal, "people will be able to speak for thousands of miles" on Prof. d'Arsonval's system, which it hails as another triumph for French science.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, July 8, 2013

Solves Wireless 'Phone.

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