Roy Thornberg notebook on Pacific wireless radio operations [manuscript], 1918-1935.

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Roy Thornberg notebook on Pacific wireless radio operations [manuscript], 1918-1935.

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Single 3 x 4-3/4 in. ringbound handwritten notebook for ship wireless radio operator by Roy Thornberg, circa 1918-1930s.

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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Maritime Research Center, Maritime Library, Maritime Archives

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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Maritime Research Center, Maritime Library, Maritime Archives

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Thornberg, Roy.

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Royden "Roy" Thornberg was born October 6, 1891 in San Francisco, Calif. and lived in the city most of his life working as a wireless radio operator and radio electrician machinist. He was employed at San Francisco's Federal Telegraphy Company at least by 1917. The Federal Telegraph Company was created in 1910, the same year it built its pioneering transmission tower on San Francisco's Ocean Beach. During this period, Federal was also pioneering in the manufacturing of electronic equipment for w...