EPISODE · Nov 19, 2013 · 8 MIN
Greenbury Point Radio Towers
from A History of the Navy in 100 Objects · host United States Naval Academy
Video 39 in the series "A History of the Navy in 100 Objects" presented by the United States Naval Academy. This is about the Greenbury Point Radio Towers.
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As naval aviation was under development, so was another pivotal early 20th century invention, the radio. The Navy was a very early adopter of wireless communication, and the outbreak of World War I necessitated an alternative to the transatlantic telegraph. The massive radio complex at Greenbury Point across the river from the Naval Academy filled this need. The three towers remaining today help us discuss the birth of radio, and the incredibly rapid evolution of wireless communications in the Navy.
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