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Description
A postcard image of the Bell Telephone System's Earth Station. The text on the postcard notes it was "built for Project Telstar experiments looking toward overseas telephone and television service via satellites in space.
"View shows Control Building and 210 foot Radome."
About This Item
- Title: Bell Telephone Earth Station, Andover, 1962
- Creation Date: 1962
- Subject Date: 1962
- Location: Andover, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Postcard
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 14 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 4014
- Collection: Postcard collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Comsat station (Andover, Me.)
- Earth stations (Satellite telecommunication)
- Project Telstar
- Radomes--Maine--Andover
- Telecommunications industry--Maine--Andover
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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