Satellite transmission recording [sound recording], 1960.

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Satellite transmission recording [sound recording], 1960.

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A recording of the first two-way transmission via Echo satellite in August 1960 to the Bell Telephone Laboratories by Vandenburg Air Force Base, with the first message by Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1 tape recording.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6923155

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.

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Vandenburg Air Force Base (Calif.)

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