Featured Exhibit!
Eight decades ago, Chatham Radio covertly intercepted
German U-boat messages and was credited with shortening
the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest single battle of World War II.
Can You Keep A Really Big Secret?
explores everyday life in Chatham as a wartime “Navy town”
and the mission that helped change the course of the war.
Chatham Marconi Speaker Series
Crossing the Atlantic by Voice:
AT&T's New Jersey "Pole Farm”
and the Story of Short Wave Radiotelephony
November 6 @ 7PM
(Via ZOOM)
By the early 1900s, Americans could place a telephone call to almost anywhere in North America, but not overseas. To resolve this issue, in 1928 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) purchased more than 800 acres of productive farmland in central New Jersey to build what became the world’s largest radiotelephone shortwave transmitting station. It was named “The Pole Farm” after the thousands of tall antenna poles that were installed on the site.
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