Book on File

Web editor note: Even thought this book only mentions Camp Evans by name for Project Diana, persons associated with the site when it was a Marconi Station, a WWI Naval Radio Station, a RCA Station, the WWII Signal Corps radar laboratory, the post WWII and cold-war Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories, a part of the Army Satellite Communication Agency and they assisted NASA with satellite tracking they played a roll in nearly all the communication developments outlined in this book.

Communications
in Space
FROM MARCONI TO MAN ON THE MOON
New and Expanded Edition
By ORRIN E. DUNLAP, Jr. - 1970
HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS New York, Evanston, and London

Contents

PREFACE 1X

I. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY 1

Achievements of the Pioneers

II. RADIO BROADCASTING 28

The Miracle of Electronics

III. RADIOPHOTO 55

Pictures Across the Hemispheres

IV. TELEVISION 63

Sight Gives Radio a New Dimension

V. RADAR 73

A Science Based on Radio Echoes

VI. SPACE AGE COMMUNICATIONS 86

Astronauts Blazed the Trails

VII. TRAIL-BLAZING THE LUNAR AGE 112

Scientific, Economical, Political Aspects

VIII. EPIC SIGNALS FROM THE MOON 136

TV Showed "One Giant Leap for Mankind"

IX. PIONEERING FOR PROGRESS 150

Steps Toward a Satellite System

X. COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES 174

"Switchboards" in the Sky

XI. SATELLITES EXPLORING FOR SCIENCE 191

Laboratories and Observatories in Space

XII. ROBOT COMMUNICATORS 221

From the Moon, Venus, and Mars

XIII. TWINS OF SCIENCE: MASER AND LASER 246

New Tools of Communications and Industry

XIV. NEW IDEAS, NEW INVENTIONS 269

Impact of the Space Age on Technology

XV. ADVANCES IN THE SPECTRUM 286

Innovations in Systems and Services

XVI. EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE 295

Probing the Cosmos, Planets, and Stars

XVII. TESTS OF TIME 316

Challenges Inventions Encounter to Survive

INDEX    331

On page 84 Project Diana is cited as....

FIRING THE IMAGINATION

     With radio akin to light and traveling at the same velocity, why shouldn't it be able to reach out to the moon, sun and planets? Those who called such communication nonsense had cause to revise their thinking on January 10, 1946, when a radar signal beamed at the moon from Evans Signal Laboratory, Belmar, New Jersey, echoed back in 2.4 seconds; radar had traversed 478,000 miles in a round trip to the moon.
     "The imagination is fired!" exclaimed Waldemar Kaempffert, science editor of The New York Times. "Space dwindles—even astronomical space. Man sends a radio feeler and actually touches the moon."
     That lunar "peep" was a signal in the ears of Army radar men that the day would come when man would reach out and touch the planets; it stirred speculation on interplanetary communication and space travel. They foresaw the time when high-speed missiles would be guided by radar and electronics with such precision that the Arctic and Antarctic, the Atlantic and the Pacific, would be no more effective in preventing attack than was the Delaware River when Washington crossed it.

Other books by Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr,
DUNLAP'S RADIO MANUAL
THE STORY OF RADIO
ADVERTISING BY RADIO
RADIO IN ADVERTISING
THE OUTLOOK FOR TELEVISION
TALKING ON THE RADIO
MARCONI: THE MAN AND HIS WIRELESS THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION
RADIO'S 100 MEN OF SCIENCE
RADAR: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS UNDERSTANDING TELEVISION
DUNLAP'S RADIO & TELEVISION ALMANAC

Page updated November 24, 2004 Page created November 24, 2004