Author: William CoxePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fore-edge painting
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Picture of Monmouthshire
Author: William CoxePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fore-edge painting
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire, and the Wye
Author: Charles Frederick CliffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The History of Monmouthshire; by David Williams. Illustrated and Ornamented by Views of Its Principal Landscapes, Ruins, and Residences; by John Gardnor, ... Engraved by Mr. Gardnor and Mr. Hill
Author: David WilliamsThe Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County
Author: John BrittonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Fort Monmouth
Author: Melissa ZiobroPublisher: Brookline Books
ISBN: 1955041237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A history of Fort Monmouth, including the innovations and tens of thousands of soldiers that came through the years. The history of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, begins in May 1917 when, as part of its wartime mobilization, the Army authorized four training camps for signal troops. One camp, located in central NJ, would eventually be known as “Fort Monmouth,” in honor of the soldiers of the American Revolution who fought and died at the nearby battle of Monmouth. This camp was located on the site of an old racetrack and luxury hotel, remnants of the famed Gilded Age at the Jersey Shore. Though much of the site was overgrown and infested with poison ivy, it afforded the Army significant advantages: proximity to the port of Hoboken and a train station, good stone roads, and access to water. Corporal Carl L. Whitehurst was among the first men to arrive at Camp Little Silver. He later recalled that the site appeared to be a “jungle of weeds, poison ivy, briars, and underbrush.” The Army Signal Corps carved a camp out of that wilderness, and trained thousands of men for war there. The Signal Corps also built laboratories that worked on pioneering technologies, like air to ground radio, from their very inception. Though the base was supposed to be temporary, it wound up outliving the war. It was for decades known as the “Home of the Signal Corps,” and, until its closure in 2011, was still innovating some of the most significant communications and electronics advances in military history. The US Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), which left Fort Monmouth in 2011, for Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, can trace its roots to the establishment of the Signal Corps training camp and research and development laboratory at Fort Monmouth in 1917, and Netflix, the site’s next owner, has a powerful legacy to live up to. From celebrity homing pigeons to the radars that detected the incoming Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor to early space communications and night vision technologies, Fort Monmouth, once called the “Army’s House of Magic,” was the birthplace of innovation and technological revolution and the home of a uniquely diverse group of military and civilian heroes and scientists.
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Monmouthshire. Historical and descriptive accounts of the ancient and present state of Ragland castle. To which are added brief notices of Wonastow, Tree-Owen, Dingatstow, and other objects in the road to Ragland
Author: RaglanWashington at the Battle of Monmouth
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph GriffithsThe Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire and the Wye ... Illustrated with Maps and Engravings
Author: Charles Frederick CliffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monmouthshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description