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Here's a small collection of poems and other literature about radio. If you have anything similar, please send it to me for possible listing here.

In days of old, when ops were bold,
And sidebands not invented,
The word would pass,
By pounding brass,
And all were well contented.
--Unknown Author

Source: The Keynote, Issue 3, 2003

Three dits, four dits, two dits, dah!
Signal Corps, Signal Corps!
Rah, Rah, Rah!
--Unknown Author

Source: Various. I've seen it quoted several places.

The following editorial appeared in the June 10, 1899 issue of Electrical World, predicting a radio communication device much like a cell phone nearly 90 years before it became a reality. Clearly the writer didn't think such things would ever be economically viable:

Telegraphy without wires--how attractive it sounds. No more unsightly pole lines disfiguring the streets and highways, ornamented with the dangling skeletrons of by-gone kites. No more perpetual excavation of the streets, to find room beneath their surfaces for additional circuits that cannot possibly be crowded on to the staggering lines that darken the sky with their sooty cobwebs.  A little instrument that one can almost carry in the pocket, certainly in a microscopic grip, and if your correspondent be likewise equipped, you may arrest his attention and talk to him almost any time or place,with no intervening medium but the... ether... Possible? Certainly. But will it pay? For this is the final criterion with which this utilitarian age tests all such propositions, and for the present under ordinary circumstances, the answer is NO.

Source: Inventing American Broadcasting: 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas

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