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Radio Headphones Used by Theodore Haubner While Transmitting the First "SOS" Distress Signal, August 11, 1909
Schmidt-Wilckes Electric Company1908/1909
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
In 1909, telegraph operator Theodore Haubner sent the first American ship-to-shore wireless distress signal -- SOS. These headphones were part of his wireless equipment. Haubner was aboard the SS Arapahoe off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, when it became disabled.
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- Title: Radio Headphones Used by Theodore Haubner While Transmitting the First "SOS" Distress Signal, August 11, 1909
- Creator: Schmidt-Wilckes Electric Company
- Date: 1909
- Date Created: 1908/1909
- Location: United States, New York, New York, United States, North Carolina, Cape Hatteras, Diamond Shoals (Sand bar)
- Subject Keywords: Haubner, Theodore D., Arapahoe (Ship), Clyde Steamship Company, Distress signals, Firsts, Steamships, Communication, Telegraphs, Headphones
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Patent Date: 1909
- Object Name: Headphones
- Object ID: 39.559.1
- Inventor: Theodore Haubner
- Invention: SOS Signal
- Image ID: THF102704
- Field: Radio
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Theodore D. Haubner.
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