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Figure 8

Black and white photograph of wireless engineers using early recording equipment in preparation for a recording at Foyle Riding

© Barratt Photos

BBC engineers outside the front door of Foyle Riding preparing equipment for the broadcast of a conversation between two nightingales, May 1925.  A G D West is in the foreground with two G.A.1. microphone amplifiers, P P Eckersley at right, and B Honri in the background

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/150402/019