FORERUNNER OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY From nearby Bear's Den Mountain to the Catoctin Ridge, a distance of fourteen miles, Dr. Mahlon Loomis, dentist, sent the first aerial wireless signals, 1866-73, using kites flown by copper wires. Loomis received a patent in 1872 and his company was chartered by Congress in 1873, but lack of captial frustrated his experiments. He died in 1886. Virginia Conservation Commission, 1948.
FORERUNNER OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY From nearby Bear's Den Mountain to the Catoctin Ridge, a distance of fourteen miles, Dr. Mahlon Loomis, dentist, sent the first aerial wireless signals, 1866-73, using kites flown by copper wires. Loomis received a patent in 1872 and his company was chartered by Congress in 1873, but lack of captial frustrated his experiments. He died in 1886. Virginia Conservation Commission, 1948.
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