Radio in Government Documents: 1910-1919
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- U.S. Senate. Committee on Commerce. “Titanic” Disaster Hearings, Apr. 19, 20, 22-27, 29, 30, May 1-4, 9, 16, 18, 25, 1912. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912.
- U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Navigation. Radio Service. Important events in Radiotelegraphy. Feb. 1, 1916.
- U.S. Navy Department. Navigation Bureau. Naval Radio Service. Radio communication chart, merchant vessels in North and South American trade, Atlantic and Gulf coasts, Mar. 1916
- United States. Dept. of Commerce. Bureau of Navigation. Radio Communication Laws of United States and International Radiotelegraphic Convention [signed London, July 5, 1912], regulations governing radio operators and use of radio apparatus on ships and on land. Edition, July 27, 1914. 1914 [reprint 1917, with addenda]. 100 pages.
- U.S. President. Executive order #2585 [Authorizing all radio stations within jurisdiction of United States required for naval communications to be taken over by Government and all others to be closed for radio communication]. Apr. 6 1917. 1 page.
- U.S. War Department. Regulations governing commercial radio service between ship and shore stations, Army, 1914; corrected to Aug. 15, 1917. 1917. 131 pages. (Manual 2A; War Dept. doc. 459.)
- U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. 65th Congress, 3rd Session. Government Control of Radio Communication, hearings on H. R. 13159, a bill to further regulate radio communication, Dec. 12, 13, 18, 17, 19, 1918.
- U.S. Army. Signal Corps. Principles underlying Radio Communication; [prepared by the Bureau of Standards under the direction of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, Training Section.”]. 1919. 355 pages. (Radio pamphlet 40.).
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Wireless Telegraph Receiver, 1909
