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Voting period ends on 18 Nov 2024 at 03:37:14 (UTC)

Original – New Brunswick Marconi Station, 1921, from left to right: James Casey (New York Herald), W. A. Graham (RCA), William A. Winterbottom (RCA), David Sarnoff (RCA), Thomas J. Hayden (RCA), Ernst J. Berg (GE), S. Benedict (GE), Albert Einstein, John R. Carson (AT&T), Charles P. Steinmetz (GE), Alfred N. Goldsmith (RCA), A. Malsin (GE), Irving Langmuir (GE), Albert W. Hull (GE), Edward B. Pillsbury (RCA), Saul Dushman (GE), Richard H. Ranger (RCA), George A. Campbell (AT&T), Charles H. Taylor (RCA), William Wilson (Western Electric)
Reason
Early pioneers of radio science and technology in the United States including Charles Steinmetz, David Sarnoff, Irving Langmuir and Alfred Goldsmith in 1921, photographed next to the antenna feed wires of the New Brunswick Marconi Station, one of the first transatlantic radio links. Photo includes Albert Einstein as a visiting guest. The image has good EV in the History of radio article. I added it there yesterday. I rewrote this reason section (simpler and more to the point).
Articles in which this image appears
History of radio, Charles Steinmetz, David Sarnoff, New Brunswick Marconi Station, List of Marconi wireless stations, Marconi Company
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
Radio Corporation of America (RCA), photographer: unknown, restored by Bammesk